ONE of the best Rhumba maestros, Fally Ipupa, was in the country for the Valentine's weekend and without talking about the 'nudity' of his dancers that were carried out in one of the papers, I have decided to share with you how Rhumba came to Africa and subsequently taking over the continent from the 50s to the late 90s.
Soukous is a genre of dance music that originated from Cuban Rumba music in the Belgian Congo and French Congo during the 1940s and gained popularity throughout Africa.
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