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Mose Fan Fan: Musicatelama

by Chris May
July 6, 2012

Mose Fan FanMusicatelamaSterns2012Considering the barbarism of Congo's Belgian colonial regime, which stripped the country of everything bar the light bulbs when independence was won in 1960, it is a wonder that music as beautiful Congolese rumba was created in the late 1940s and 1950s. But the style transcended the circumstances in which it was born (and went on to influence popular music across much of west, central and east Africa during the ...