In the fifties, the famous Congolese rumba dominated the continent. Half a century later, it has lost nothing of its youth even if, in the meantime, it has undergone numerous, radical face-lifts. Among the most inspired surgeons is Papa Wemba. The man has everything you love in the new Congolese, ex-Zairians, ex-Congolese (you will understand as you read on): vivacity, humour, intelligence, talent. And Kinshasa is a temple of intelligence where the French language is the most image laden in the French-speaking world.
It was in the Southern Congo (Zaire from 1971 to 1997 and then Democratic Republic of the Congo), in the Kasai River region, that Papa Wemba was born in 1949. His real name was Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba, but the child was nicknamed Papa because he was his mother’s eldest son...
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