Congolese music star General Defao Matumona, who died on Monday night, will be missed in Kenya where he spent nearly 19 years of his adult life in self-imposed exile. The 62-year-old Defao died at a ...

Harare — THE Department of Immigration is hunting for 19 Congolese rhumba musicians who once played with Luledo Matimumoma, popularly known as General Defao, who are believed to be staying in the ...

MOMBASA: Popular artiste Charles Njagua Kanyi, alias Jaguar, has settled a Sh20,000 hotel bill for Nairobi-based Congolese Rhumba musician Defao Matumona Lulendo. Reports indicate that Mr Defao, who ...

General Defao was not tall, but he was big,” writes Bob White in his book, “Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire. “He had an underbite smile, and a pleasant demeanour,” he adds.

Congolese singer General Defao Matumona has returned to Kinshasa after 18 years of a self-imposed exile in Nairobi. The crooner returned home last Sunday following the change of government in Congo DR ...

Renowned Congolese singer and songwriter Lulendo Matumona, also known as General Defao, is dead. Defao, 62, died yesterday, at the Laquintinie Hospital in Douala, Cameroon, where he was admitted. The ...

General Defao was not tall, but he was big,” writes Bob White in his book, “Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire. “He had an underbite smile, and a pleasant demeanour,” he adds.