Beside the music, Papa Wemba tried his hands into films and received critical acclaims but also achieved both fame and notoriety in his male role in the 1987 film, “La Vie Est Belle. In 1997, he got ...

After close to five decades of entertaining music lovers, popular Congolese rhumba and soukous legend Papa Wemba has died. Papa Wemba, 66, collapsed on Saturday night during the Femua Festival in ...

Papa Wemba (C) performs before he collapsed on stage in Abidjan, Ivory Coast last weekend. Tribute. Last Sunday, the world was shocked to learn that Congolese music star Papa Wemba had collapsed and ...

mkuu Papa Wemba, mfalme wa muziki wa Rumba. Nyota wa soka wa Cameroon, Samuel Eto'o, ameelezea kuwa ana huzuni mkubwa kuona amemkosa gwiji wa muziki wa Kiafrika. Waandaaji wa tamasha la miziki ya miji ...

Papa Wemba died after collapsing on stage at a music festival in Ivory Coast Tributes have been pouring in for Congolese musician Papa Wemba who died on Sunday morning after collapsing on stage.

I MET him for the first time in May 1999. Not in person, though - a pity because that would have been my eternal pleasure. I was in Abuja to cover the handover of power from the military government of ...

He twirled, twisted, and even lowered himself in a dramatic posture as he sauntered into this publication’s headquarters in Namuwongo, a Kampala Suburb. In a way, Mr Godfrey Atiku, better known by his ...

December 2000, Charles de Gaulle airport, Paris. The world music star Papa Wemba has just arrived from the Congo with his entourage. It's sizeable, which is not unexpected: Congolese music is fond of ...

One of Africa's biggest music stars, the Congolese singer Papa Wemba, has appeared in court in France charged with aiding illegal immigration. Papa Wemba is suspected of having received payment to ...

After close to five decades of entertaining music lovers, popular Congolese rhumba and soukous legend Papa Wemba has died. Papa Wemba, 66, collapsed on Saturday night during the Femua Festival in ...