Kasai Allstars
Contents: The chief's enthronement/Oyaye -- Yangye, the evil leopard -- Salute to Kalombo -- Down and out -- He who makes bush fires for others -- As they walked into the forest on a Sunday, they encountered apes dressed as humans -- Thus spoke the ancestors -- Beware the fetish -- A good husband -- In praise of homeboys -- The dead don't dance -- The ploughman = Le laboureur (recorded live, July 2011,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Crammed Discs 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KASOkwess International (Musical group)
Contents: Hello -- Musonsu -- Ofakombolo -- Benanga -- Pondjo pondjo -- Emikele ngamo -- Nkoy -- Nzele momi -- Le temps passé -- Ekombe -- Bengai yo.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN OKWKonono No. 1
Contents: Lufuala Ndonga -- Masikulu -- Kule Kule -- Ungudi Wele Wele -- Paradiso -- Kule Kule reprise -- Mama Liza.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Crammed Discs 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KONSummary: "In 1974, Leon Gast traveled to Africa to film Zaire 74, a music festival planned to accompany an unprecedented sports spectacle: the Rumble in the Jungle, in which late-career underdog Muhammad Ali would contend with the younger powerhouse George Foreman for the boxing heavyweight championship title--'a fight between two blacks in a black nation, organized by blacks,' as a Kinshasa billboard...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC WHEMorvan, Jean David
Summary: "Award-winning writer JD Morvan and renowned photographer Abbas' stunning graphic novel masterpiece which uses iconic photos to uniquely illustrate the historical 'Rumble in the Jungle' boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. On the 30 th October 1974, the most famous boxing match of the 20th Century took place. Nicknamed the "Rumble in the Jungle", it pitted Muhammad Ali,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.83 MORHumphreys, Jessica Dee
Summary: Recounts the experiences of Michel Chikwanine, who at age five was abducted during a schoolyard soccer game and forced to become a child soldier.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355 HUMReid, Stuart A.
Summary: "A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller-about the US-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Soul Jazz Records looks at the explosion of music that came out of the Congo in the years leading up to independence in 1960.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019