Nairobi — This is the question that must be troubling the minds of fans of Congolese rhumba following the death of veteran singer Madilu System (born Jean de Dieu Bialu), just as his new album, La ...

Built to the same impressive physical proportions as the late Luciano Pavarotti, the Congolese rumba and soukous star Madilu System, who passed unexpectedly from what is thought to have been a ...

Kampala — While fans of Afrigo Band were mourning the death of the band's legendary saxophonist Mansur Bulegeya, a fortnight ago, elsewhere in Congo, fans of rumba soukous music, were grieving the ...

Thousands of fans have taken to the streets of the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital to mourn Madilu System, known as "Congo's King of Rumba". Police controlled the crowds as they accompanied the ...

When the first notes of the band’s guitars warm up the stage on a Thursday night, the atmosphere inside a popular rhumba club on Nairobi’s Riverside Drive turns electric. It doesn’t take long before ...