The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) owes much of its global renown to its music, which reflects its cultural diversity.

Meanwhile, a host of American jazz greats were serving as cultural ambassadors ... use in the film — there was a genocide in the Congo. Music and politics collide head-on near the end ...

The electronic and experimental music band KOKOKO! didn’t record its albums in studios, or even really indoors, in its birthplace of Kinshasa, the sprawling capital of the Democratic Republic of ...