His fans called him the king of soukous - a high-tempo Congolese dance music popular across Africa. His daughter, French singer Liza Monet, tweeted on Thursday that her father had died of coronavirus.

I met him in France two years ago and he was upbeat. He even told me he wanted to rebrand Soukous, complete with a new dance style,” Frank Diaz, one of his former promoters now living in Nairobi ...

Koffi Olomidé is a huge star of rumba and soukous which are popular across much of Africa. One of the best-loved hits of his long career is 1997's Loi. Olomidé was first charged in 2012 with ...