When Armand Diangienda founded the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra - one of the most famous in Africa - in 1994, they had so ...

When Armand Diangienda founded the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra -- one of the most famous in Africa -- in 1994, they had so ...

The African American folk singer and songwriter had decades-long career as a children's entertainer, and made a global impact ...

One of the percussionists begins to beat on a tall instrument that ... “This is why the Congo will stay poor. I deeply detest all this noise, this music. You can’t think about the future ...

As late as 1843, a weekly gathering in New Orleans' Place Congo drew hundreds ... jaw rattles — instruments popular with African American players. In turn, white music influenced the ...

Though jazz and classic blues are really early twentieth-century black music innovations ... the shadow of Congo Square. In what is probably his most famous composition, Gottschalk sketches for us an ...

With longer evenings and firesides beckoning, what better way to spend a few relaxing hours than listening, by candlelight, ...

A passionate and propulsive documentary about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba spins its web in many directions.

Ghosting is the name of this piece by Congolese artist Sandra Mujinga, on display at the new Museum of Modern Art in Poland ...

Norman Willmore and Corrie Dick speak to Gail Tasker about the unique weirdness of Shetland's folk music, and their debut ...

With longer evenings and firesides beckoning, what better way to spend a few relaxing hours in listening by candlelight to ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: 'Why I spent my university fees on Somali TikTok battles' France backs Morocco in dispute over Western Sahara ...