The official 'Yolele' video taken from Papa Wemba's second album on Real World Records, 'Emotion'. This album is now available as part of the Real ... see more » AllAfrica publishes around 500 reports ...

One afternoon, the story goes, he went to visit a friend in Kasa-Vubu, where D.V. Moanda’s band, Belgid, was rehearsing. A Catholic choir singer, Wemba told the band how much he loved singing and ...

Congolese rumba legend, Papa Wemba lived up to the hype that is attributed to his stage performance. The star headliner of the Koroga Festival held at Arboretum on Sunday, performed hits that he is ...

One of Africa’s best-loved global musicians, Papa Wemba, died on Sunday 24 April 2016 after collapsing on stage in Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire. The 66-year-old father of Congolese rumba rock reportedly ...