A huge bronze statue of a smiling Franco Luambo Makiadi, a guitar strapped ... Candidat na Biso Mobutu (Our Candidate is Mobutu), a song he sang as an endorsement of Mobutu Se Seko, a brutal ...

Once more, millions of Rhumba fans are commemorating the death of Franco Luambo Luanzo Makiadi, one of the world’s greatest musicians of the 20th century. After his untimely demise in 1989 ...