One of the activities is the NOLA Reggae Fest. New Orleans Music Month is a city-wide month-long celebration of New Orleans' ...

"But the truth of the matter was, Zoraïde had seen le beau Mézor dance the Bamboula in Congo Square. That was a sight to hold one rooted to the ground. Mézor was as straight as a cypress-tree ...

The slave trade brought to the port city numerous Africans, who sometimes gathered in Congo Square to dance and play music from their homelands. Many were exposed to West Indian culture after ...

The event will feature performances from notable artists such as reggae icon Yellowman and Jamaica’s I-Octane, alongside New ...

Congo Square itself would have contributed to that transition. We know that on Sundays enslaved people would gather in Congo Square by way of their traditions to dance, sing, to play musical ...

"All that I have become I owe to dancing." Magumba won the prize for Best Congolese Dancer at this year's Goma dance festival, the largest dancing event in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

It's hard to swallow," Ivory Coast midfielder Franck Kessie said. Instead, Congo topped the group with a colorful 3-1 win over Togo in Port-Gentil, where the Congolese players danced in front of ...

Students illuminated the resilience, strength and humanity of Congolese women affected by decades of ongoing conflict, sexual violence and industrial mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

KIBATI, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Congo needs to do more to raise awareness about mpox and the availability of vaccines, an official with the response team said on Thursday ...

Congolese authorities on Saturday began vaccination against mpox, nearly two months after the disease outbreak that spread from Congo to several African countries and beyond was declared a global ...

DAKAR, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has cancelled a licensing round for 27 oil blocks, originally launched in 2022 to tap into the nation's oil and gas potential ...

By Elian Peltier Reporting from Abidjan, Ivory Coast More than 700 inmates were released from the largest prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country’s authorities said on Saturday ...