Chance Eloko Pamba


Some of the translations are inaccurate.

Featured are a number of the biggest figures of the music industry in the mid-90s - Wemba, Wendo Kolosoy, Simaro, Saddam Kongulu, Zacle (biggest journalist of the 90s), & Colonel Jaegger.

Wemba was a big promoter for Skol at the time, which had a big marketing push to tap into the chégué market. Thus concerts at rond point Victoire in Matonge were held, where he let chégué talents shine - "Chance eloko pamba". Supposedly this was the big motivating factor which led to the creation of Nouvelle écriture a year or so after. Wemba and Pépé Kallé were the two artists who made huge efforts to reach to and be a part of the common folk of Matonge-Kinshasa, especially as poverty rates skyrocketed in the 90s. 

At 25:55 - Wendo, Simaro, Wemba and Jagger explain the very beginnings of rhumba - the impacts of Kabasele, Bill Alexandre, Frank Lassan and then Wendo and Tabu Ley. When Wendo began there were no guitars in Kinshasa.

Ah Colonel Jaegger, he was such a character in the 90s - always with a cigarette in hand 

I was always amazed by the difference between the serious, on-camera Zacle and the passionate, opinionated jokester he was off-camera. 

Lastly, this a much better work than BBC documentary from 2003, done a typical BBC condescending manner, failing to present Wemba as the individual he was.

I recognize Siatula, Lambio-Lambio, Ramazani, Dezay, Gauthier Mukoka & Theo Bidens

kiekiekiekiekie Colonel Jagger aza bandit <<eloko wana eza te>>>

 ndeko you forgot manda chante singing on wemba's left in the concert  at 12th minute

ndeko you forgot manda chante singing on wemba's left in the concert  at 12th minute

Aah ouais, did he left Wenge El Paris for a moment ?
The most musicians at this concert where accompanying Reddy in the Prudence-days and would end up in Nouvelle Ecriture. In this makes clear that Wemba was at that time a kind of father for the shegues, but how did he lost at to Werra. Because he promoting them very much at that time on tv and is it true that Wemba invented the name "shegue" (abreviation from Che Gueavara)? Because the European press reported that, not long ago.

ndeko you forgot manda chante singing on wemba's left in the concert  at 12th minute

Aah ouais, did he left Wenge El Paris for a moment ?
The most musicians at this concert where accompanying Reddy in the Prudence-days and would end up in Nouvelle Ecriture. In this makes clear that Wemba was at that time a kind of father for the shegues, but how did he lost at to Werra. Because he promoting them very much at that time on tv and is it true that Wemba invented the name "shegue" (abreviation from Che Gueavara)? Because the European press reported that, not long ago.

I don't believe Wemba coined the word chégué -> shegue (Correct it comes from Che Guevara). Following his participation in the Congo crisis, his African contemporaries like young Laurent Kabila, who inherited Che's principles, created chégué to refer to comrades rather than Mobutu's citoyen. Like La SAPE, which has it's roots in the 1920 and in Brazzaville, Wemba became the leading ambassador and father figure.

HAHAHA that part at "hotel" when vieux jagg' asks for three condoms instead of one