The house of Congolese world music legend Papa Wemba has been turned into a museum to rumba – Copyright AFP/File JUNIOR KANNAH
Each weekend, dancers stoked on music and alcohol sway to the old hits on the decrepit rooftop terrace of Kinshasa’s venerable La Creche bar like little has changed in the Congolese capital since the 1980s.
The beer flows freely and the party goes on into the small hours while the band keep alive the traditions of Congolese rumba, a genre of music whose origins experts believe lie in the time before European…
