In Europe, the Paris-based band Kékélé is considered the world-music equivalent of exiled royalty: five of the stars of old-style Congolese soukous revisiting, on acoustic instruments, the classic ...

I am in Pointe Noire in Congo, Brazzaville.. I visited Brazzaville back in 1987. Our national radio program has been on the air since 1988, and we have covered Congolese music since the beginning.

Having covered both the Montreal International Jazz Festival and Montreal's Nuits d'Afrique Festival for over a decade, we can say it's very rare for an artist to play at both festivals in the same ...