He who brings kola brings life,” goes the Igbo proverb in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. But so bitter was it that, the first time I tasted it, I could not finish my lob of kola. I could not ...

Four rumba music players have teamed up to form an ensemble targeted at providing top Afro pop musos with a back-up live band. All the four have fallen out with the three top local rumba stars, Frank ...

Nairobi — When Congolese musician Papa Wemba performed at the Carnivore in Nairobi at the weekend and introduced his show with hip-hop and rock-fused rumba, most of the fans were not amused. A section ...

One of the up and coming rumba artistes, Onkagetse Phetlhu, better known by his stage-name Dedcoh, says he is happy with the way the last Botswana Musicians Union (MOMU) awards were run. Dedcoh, who ...

Fresh from launching his DVD for the new album, Baesekele, rumba star Franco Lesokwane says he is due to unleash his new sounds as early as next month, describing his new music as a fusion of samba ...

Two of the country's leading musicians appear set to give their music a new flavour this year. Traditional music icon, Captain Dira, and rumba king, Franco, are understood to be re-inventing ...