The soon-to-come winter has put a chill on Chicago’s Afropop and world music scene. But the slowdown will not last for long. On Saturday night, soukous lovers can check out Congolese guitarist ...

Congolese guitarist Siama Matuzungidi sitting by the Mississippi. His new album, "Rivers: From the Congo to the Mississippi," is based on his own rich tradition of soukous music, but incorporates ...

The large number of Congolese car guards working around the Cape Town CBD is unfortunately misleading reckons Miguel Katshiete, the dynamic founder of La Diaspora Congolaise Cape Town which he set up ...

Soukous, the infectious driving pop music from Zaire, reached an international audience in the 1980s when a community of self-exiled African musicians turned Paris into the Western capital of Afropop.