NGOMA HERITAGE Local Congolese-American drummer Kiazi Malonga is the son of Malonga Casquelourd, founder of Fua Dia Congo, the Oakland-based dance-and-drum group that introduced Congolese music and ...

Congo Square, the historic common that is now part of Armstrong Park but was once a market and gathering place for enslaved Africans, is the subject of a weekend-long symposium and music festival.

When Americans get a chance to hear live music from Africa, there’s usually a disconnect: we don’t understand the lyrics, we don’t know how a style developed or from what, and in the case of ...

Tabu Ley, one of the stars of 'Congo Funk!', and his band African Fiesta National in 1970 From the south bank’s perspective, the two-way musical trade between each country was complicated in 1971 when ...

"The Integral language of Black Africa" by Leopold Sedar Senghor. Program notes, and texts (in Bantu with English translations) bound into each container. Recorded in: Fort Rousset (Congo (Brazzaville ...