They call him the voice of the Congo. His name is Shiko Mawatu and through his music, his working hard to bring attention to his homeland, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and to its people ...

As people sought shelter under old oak trees, the Louisiana rain played percussion on the puddles. Just above that familiar sound, the siren song of Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra ...

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.

This year has seen the untimely deaths of two of the world’s most important cultural ambassadors. The Congolese rumba composer and TPOK Jazz singer Pepe Ndombe Opetum passed on around the same time we ...

Inside the Goma Cultural Center in Congo, dozens of guitars once used to teach Goma’s youth hang silently on the wall. The center, once known as a gathering place for musicians and artists who want to ...

ROCK ISLAND — Though it has been more than three years since he and his family were rescued and moved to the United States from a refugee war camp in central Africa, Asuma Aoci still thanks God every ...