Last week, 86-year-old Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango died of COVID-19. Dibango’s music shook the world: His discography spans six decades and at least as many genres, with forays into jazz, ...

University of Cape Town provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Emmanuel N’Djoké Dibango – Manu Dibango – will live forever thanks to his Afropolitan sounds, and to the fact that ...

Manu Dibango, the pioneering Cameroonian jazz musician whose song “Soul Makossa” inspired a famous refrain in Michael Jackson’s hit “Wanna Be Starting Something” and one of the most popular break ...

I was heartbroken to learn that the great saxophonist Emmanuel N'Djoké "Manu" Dibango, known as the Lion of Cameroon, succumbed to Covid-19 a few days ago in France. The African music titan was 86 and ...

Among the hundreds of thousands who have died from the coronavirus are music world luminaries Alan Merrill, Ellis Marsalis, and sax legend Manu Dibango — whose passing deeply affected his good friend ...

Barely two months after Koffi Olomide staged a thrilling show in Kenya, during the eleventh edition of the bi-monthly Koroga Festival, Kenyan music lovers were in for another huge treat last Sunday.

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IT was a sign of the times when global music star Manu Dibango succumbed to the COVID-19 pandemic in France on March 24. He was 86. A video recorded two months ago, which showed Beninois artiste ...

Actor Chadwick Boseman gives a Wakanda salute to the crowd as Howard University holds its commencement ceremonies on May, 12, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) Actor ...