Zaïko langa langa songs

'Eza bolingo, eloko mosusu te',

Mfumu Kimbangu, a rumba music aficionado and a radio presenter with Kenya's state broadcaster sang this line to this writer with a heavy baritone, mimicking the voice of Djouna Mumbafu of Empire Bakuba, in response to the question on the position of the band, in Congolese music.

Mfumu went ahead and explained how Pepe Kalle who died on November 29th, 1998, revolutionized Congolese rumba, and gave it a whole new direction, resulting in a high-tempo soukous sub-genre, that came to define the fifth generation of Congolese music. 

In fact, according to him, this was the very first deployment of an atalaku in Congolese music, an aspect that came to define the music, even in subsequent generations, like in the fifth generation, where a band is as its atalaku, a world that's ruled by Bill Clinton, Tutu Kalounji and others.

This conversation propped up in a Nairobi hotel in 2018, where this write Biography of barack obama!