Lol, I think that you’ve never been to Kin and have been following what was going on the last 10 years. People prefer foreign music above Congolese music right now and know all those Tokoss songs by heart. Congolese music is death in Kinshasa
That technic worked very well for Wemba and made him being respected in Europe and the United States. If he didn’t do world music then he would have been on the same level like Emeneya and the press around world not having paid him the tribute when he died. World music made him also be known better in Africa because before that he was only known in Zaire, Congo Brazzaville, Rwanda and Burundi. His work with Martin Messoniers and Le Voyageur made him known in Francophone Africa (Senegal, Ivory Coast, Guinea & Mali) and his Emotion album made him known in Anglophone Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria).