It is interesting that I meet Congolese people frequently, but all of them are from Bas-Congo or Bandundu. Never met anyone from other places like Boende, Lumumbasi or Mbandaka.
I think Nippon Banzai is not a very good album. It is a quite poor summary of their work which had much more interesting highlights. They recorded way much better live sessions than that, never understood why Nippon Banzai was pushed more than those.
If you are a beginner, you should start with:
Piéces a Conviction, Zaiko Dansez Othule, Subissez Les Consequences, Nous Y Sommes, Live Maquis GB (Les trois glorieuses) and the album titled: Zaiko Familia Dei
These albums are full of great sebens and have a very good sound.
He is not a very famous soloist, but has a unique technique to play the seben, so whenever he is on stage it is easy to recognise him. This technique is like when someone would be playing solo with strumming.
Don't forget about the "pope" of soukous: Dr. Sakis, who is a Brazza musician, along with his mate: Dany Engobo, who were already well established artists by the beginning of the 90's:
Okay, everyone should archive favoutires. Next year if things go bad, we can discuss if we could make the saved things available to each other somehow.
One thing is sure, if you upload, you can create a nonlisted channel that you share here, those are less likely to be spotted by copyright watchdogs. Members will see the channel but it won't appear in the search in Youtube,
I am very interested though what will happen now in foreign relations. International media, especially the UK is blaming Mugabe a lot. The have a point, but in case of the UK this is also fuelled by the confiscation of white owned lands. Ridiculous situation, as 150 years ago they were the white farmers who confiscated the lands from the natives. I am sure in secret the UK hopes for developement in this regard. I wonder if Mwangagwa will feed their expectation in this sense.
But anyhow, since the situation in South Sudan I worry in every case when a dictatorship ends in Africa. Theoretically it should be a pleasing change, in practice it just generates more problems. In the EU, there is so much debate about migration recently. I don't understand why they do not come up with ideas to help solving conflicts back in Africa, less migrants would set out for a travel then. In my opinion, the UN should create an army mandated to remove incompetent dictators even by force, secure the society and disarm potential rebel fractions, ban weapon import, and assist legal elections. When colonialists left Africa in the 60's, they just left everything behind as is, handing on the power to dangerous persons not thinking about it would be their responsibility to protect the people from cleptocracy and corruption before they leave. This should be corrigated. 60 years had passed since the end of colonialism, but Africa is still suffering from this mistake the colonial powers made when they left.
Mugabe out. Zimbabwe isn't out of the woods yet, too often the replacement is just as incompetent.
Other African dictators are now thinking of the fates now
This is the point quys. Sadly, but this is the reality. People can celebrate, but they forget to ask: "Why was he replaced?" Was he replaced so that his successor could give more to people, or because they want to be the next one in the row to fill their pockets. If I should bet, the case is the latter one. If Mwangagwa would be more for the people, he would have already shown this during the decades. However, I read nothing like that about him.
Never forget that democracy won't work in case there is no authority supervising the top politicians. Such institutions doesn't exist or have no power in Africa. Politicans know this, and that's why they dare to do whatever they want. They change constitutions by their needs, sell the economy by the pound. They know their deeds won't have a consequence. This way they are just filling their pockets and behave so oddly like Mugabe. So anyone comes as next will just behave like the others. They have no reason to behave differently.
Also do not forget, that South Sudan celebrated like Zimbabwe a few years ago when they became independent after decades of war against the islamic north. And now? They are in bloody civil war. I would't be sure it won't happen like that in Zimbabwe. When a dictator leaves, there will be power vacum, and people start putting up the guns.
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