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coming soon,chapter two,the dancers,their rights,their obligations,their different hidden roles,

I cannot wait for this story. This will be the most scandalous especially how the dancers have been and still get treated.

I was curious on how musicians, or bands get payed on concerts. I came across one YouTube channel that provided an insight though it's not always straightforward. What I have learned, and as an example, a band can charge $300 to $750/band member/song, depending on how popular the group is. So say a band that has 10 members , charging at 300$/band member/song,  and playing 10 songs for a one hour concert would ask for $30,000 as minimum provided the promoter, or organiser covers other incurred cost such as transport,  logistics, hotel, food, stage graphic, sound engineer, tax...etc. If however the deal is such that the band needs to cover other incurred costs, then the asking price from the band or band manager would be ($30,000 + other incurred cost ). That's why having too many members in the band is not justifiable economically. Now Imagine a band that has 10 singers, 10 dancers and at least 5 musicians, say a total of 25 members.  In that case, the band may consider squeezing their minimum asking price to only $50/band member/song, and if the band has to cover othe incurred cost, they will definitely go for cheapest option like taking airline that does not serve food nor beverages, booking bed and breakfast instead of hotels, going for poor quality sound system,.......etc. This will degrade reputation of any band seeking to raise its bar.

CHAPTER TWO: FEMALE DANCERS

The name explains itself,female dancers primary role is to be part of the dancing section of the group and participate either with choreographies during rumbas,collective choreographies with the band on sebene songs and generiques and their own choreographies which are often used to give reserve members of the backline some playing time,or one of the steps towards becoming a first team instrumentist
their participation in congolese music covers most of its history and in this part we will talk about their conditions of work,their rights,their obligations,the advantages and the bad sides of being a female dancer in DRC and also their hidden roles

-SALARY,RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

dancers' payment often depends from the structure of payment of the group,but what is certain in most cases is that their salary is often smaller than those of men,and leaders use as reason the fact that they have to pay for their hair nails and so on
so in average the dancers rarely topped the 100 dollars a month official salary,and sometimes an artist like koffi olomide when he had the strict monthly structure who would pay a certain amount for an already proven dancer joining his band as a sign on fee which could in some cases to 3000 dollars to sign a contract then 100 150 200 depending of how popular the dancer was before joining
they have like their male colleagues of all the departments to be their at the rehearsals,concerts and reunions,and they have often a bigger right in benefitting treatment in case of illness then men,for two reasons,the first being the natural one that in african mentality women need a bit more care than men,then another one which will be explained later on in the post

-THE PROS AND THE CONS OF BEING A DANCER IN DRC

two of the biggest pros of being a dancer is a certain fame you can acquire via being seen on tv and the fact of travelling around the world if you manage to get into the list
the biggest con by far is the fact that female dancers are extremely sexualised,they are seen by many people in the society like prostitutes and " a shameful job" and unfortunately the behavior of some of them on stage never helped get that bad reputation away
therefore it leads to an "universal" rule in bands of drc,that they dont have the right to date male musicians of the band and have the obligation in most cases to move to another group or to retire from dancing to protect the relationship
leaders' reason behind that rule is that they claim its a threat for the group's harmony because for example a rift can start during a concert because a guy came to shower money on the female dancer and got too close physically or vice versa
but in reality the reason is that most leaders love having dancers who dont have any engagement even outside the group so that they can use them for their sexual satisfaction
and in most of the cases it works,because of the women's desperation for fame/luxury life but also because of the familial pressure i mention in the other post,very few dancers manage to say no and stand by their stance
and it has been going on for decades and while we could have have expected it to change,it still continues even down to the urban music generation,and sometimes on advice of elders,without giving names i will for example mention an elder telling ferre in front of me you see them dancers you can have good fun with them if you want you can even sleep two of them at the same time after concerts
then outside of their roles for the pleasure of their leaders,they have an hidden role that i will talk about in the next part

THE HIDDEN ROLES

the oldest hidden role of female dancers is that they are sent to donors,either on the donor's demand in order to upgrade their involvement in donorship,or on mission to lure a uprising donor so that he concentrates most his money on that band and gives less to the others
this role also has at times a hidden spiritual agenda,in the sense that dancers are sent to sleep with those donors to steal their aura and then enhance their leader's as he'd sleep with them after
for those roles most of the times the reward is a very tiny part of the amount the leader himself gets,then the "basic luxury" comfort expected to be enough to satisfy young african women(house rent,foreign channels,nails and hair money...) and in some of the wildest cases of this it sometimes went as far as deaths of those donors for the spiritual reasons,which lead to strong anger for some of those dancers about being involved in such dark secrets with so little reward compared to the familial pressure where they have to sometimes pay scholarship of all their siblings and their children,their medical care and so on throughout their careers
two other roles which have emerged of late are that they are sometimes told by leaders to go and get numbers of women in the crowd or sometimes on stage when a woman comes to salute/give money/take a selfie and then an artistic one which consists in some groups for the most experienced dancers to be able to tell guitarists that a string is off tune or things like that instead,or also the two dancers on the left and right of leaders have sometimes responsability to remind them of lyrics as sometimes they come freshly from a meeting,or straight from sex in bed and need a couple of songs to get their act together and remember the right order of their songs

CHAPTER TWO: FEMALE DANCERS

The name explains itself,female dancers primary role is to be part of the dancing section of the group and participate either with choreographies during rumbas,collective choreographies with the band on sebene songs and generiques and their own choreographies which are often used to give reserve members of the backline some playing time,or one of the steps towards becoming a first team instrumentist
their participation in congolese music covers most of its history and in this part we will talk about their conditions of work,their rights,their obligations,the advantages and the bad sides of being a female dancer in DRC and also their hidden roles

-SALARY,RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

dancers' payment often depends from the structure of payment of the group,but what is certain in most cases is that their salary is often smaller than those of men,and leaders use as reason the fact that they have to pay for their hair nails and so on
so in average the dancers rarely topped the 100 dollars a month official salary,and sometimes an artist like koffi olomide when he had the strict monthly structure who would pay a certain amount for an already proven dancer joining his band as a sign on fee which could in some cases to 3000 dollars to sign a contract then 100 150 200 depending of how popular the dancer was before joining
they have like their male colleagues of all the departments to be their at the rehearsals,concerts and reunions,and they have often a bigger right in benefitting treatment in case of illness then men,for two reasons,the first being the natural one that in african mentality women need a bit more care than men,then another one which will be explained later on in the post

-THE PROS AND THE CONS OF BEING A DANCER IN DRC

two of the biggest pros of being a dancer is a certain fame you can acquire via being seen on tv and the fact of travelling around the world if you manage to get into the list
the biggest con by far is the fact that female dancers are extremely sexualised,they are seen by many people in the society like prostitutes and " a shameful job" and unfortunately the behavior of some of them on stage never helped get that bad reputation away
therefore it leads to an "universal" rule in bands of drc,that they dont have the right to date male musicians of the band and have the obligation in most cases to move to another group or to retire from dancing to protect the relationship
leaders' reason behind that rule is that they claim its a threat for the group's harmony because for example a rift can start during a concert because a guy came to shower money on the female dancer and got too close physically or vice versa
but in reality the reason is that most leaders love having dancers who dont have any engagement even outside the group so that they can use them for their sexual satisfaction
and in most of the cases it works,because of the women's desperation for fame/luxury life but also because of the familial pressure i mention in the other post,very few dancers manage to say no and stand by their stance
and it has been going on for decades and while we could have have expected it to change,it still continues even down to the urban music generation,and sometimes on advice of elders,without giving names i will for example mention an elder telling ferre in front of me you see them dancers you can have good fun with them if you want you can even sleep two of them at the same time after concerts
then outside of their roles for the pleasure of their leaders,they have an hidden role that i will talk about in the next part

THE HIDDEN ROLES

the oldest hidden role of female dancers is that they are sent to donors,either on the donor's demand in order to upgrade their involvement in donorship,or on mission to lure a uprising donor so that he concentrates most his money on that band and gives less to the others
this role also has at times a hidden spiritual agenda,in the sense that dancers are sent to sleep with those donors to steal their aura and then enhance their leader's as he'd sleep with them after
for those roles most of the times the reward is a very tiny part of the amount the leader himself gets,then the "basic luxury" comfort expected to be enough to satisfy young african women(house rent,foreign channels,nails and hair money...) and in some of the wildest cases of this it sometimes went as far as deaths of those donors for the spiritual reasons,which lead to strong anger for some of those dancers about being involved in such dark secrets with so little reward compared to the familial pressure where they have to sometimes pay scholarship of all their siblings and their children,their medical care and so on throughout their careers
two other roles which have emerged of late are that they are sometimes told by leaders to go and get numbers of women in the crowd or sometimes on stage when a woman comes to salute/give money/take a selfie and then an artistic one which consists in some groups for the most experienced dancers to be able to tell guitarists that a string is off tune or things like that instead,or also the two dancers on the left and right of leaders have sometimes responsability to remind them of lyrics as sometimes they come freshly from a meeting,or straight from sex in bed and need a couple of songs to get their act together and remember the right order of their songs

thank you for this.
Elaborate the role of the chef of the dancers and her remuneration.
I also noticed a lot of these dancers end up settling abroad.

CHAPTER TWO: FEMALE DANCERS

The name explains itself,female dancers primary role is to be part of the dancing section of the group and participate either with choreographies during rumbas,collective choreographies with the band on sebene songs and generiques and their own choreographies which are often used to give reserve members of the backline some playing time,or one of the steps towards becoming a first team instrumentist
their participation in congolese music covers most of its history and in this part we will talk about their conditions of work,their rights,their obligations,the advantages and the bad sides of being a female dancer in DRC and also their hidden roles

-SALARY,RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

dancers' payment often depends from the structure of payment of the group,but what is certain in most cases is that their salary is often smaller than those of men,and leaders use as reason the fact that they have to pay for their hair nails and so on
so in average the dancers rarely topped the 100 dollars a month official salary,and sometimes an artist like koffi olomide when he had the strict monthly structure who would pay a certain amount for an already proven dancer joining his band as a sign on fee which could in some cases to 3000 dollars to sign a contract then 100 150 200 depending of how popular the dancer was before joining
they have like their male colleagues of all the departments to be their at the rehearsals,concerts and reunions,and they have often a bigger right in benefitting treatment in case of illness then men,for two reasons,the first being the natural one that in african mentality women need a bit more care than men,then another one which will be explained later on in the post

-THE PROS AND THE CONS OF BEING A DANCER IN DRC

two of the biggest pros of being a dancer is a certain fame you can acquire via being seen on tv and the fact of travelling around the world if you manage to get into the list
the biggest con by far is the fact that female dancers are extremely sexualised,they are seen by many people in the society like prostitutes and " a shameful job" and unfortunately the behavior of some of them on stage never helped get that bad reputation away
therefore it leads to an "universal" rule in bands of drc,that they dont have the right to date male musicians of the band and have the obligation in most cases to move to another group or to retire from dancing to protect the relationship
leaders' reason behind that rule is that they claim its a threat for the group's harmony because for example a rift can start during a concert because a guy came to shower money on the female dancer and got too close physically or vice versa
but in reality the reason is that most leaders love having dancers who dont have any engagement even outside the group so that they can use them for their sexual satisfaction
and in most of the cases it works,because of the women's desperation for fame/luxury life but also because of the familial pressure i mention in the other post,very few dancers manage to say no and stand by their stance
and it has been going on for decades and while we could have have expected it to change,it still continues even down to the urban music generation,and sometimes on advice of elders,without giving names i will for example mention an elder telling ferre in front of me you see them dancers you can have good fun with them if you want you can even sleep two of them at the same time after concerts
then outside of their roles for the pleasure of their leaders,they have an hidden role that i will talk about in the next part

THE HIDDEN ROLES

the oldest hidden role of female dancers is that they are sent to donors,either on the donor's demand in order to upgrade their involvement in donorship,or on mission to lure a uprising donor so that he concentrates most his money on that band and gives less to the others
this role also has at times a hidden spiritual agenda,in the sense that dancers are sent to sleep with those donors to steal their aura and then enhance their leader's as he'd sleep with them after
for those roles most of the times the reward is a very tiny part of the amount the leader himself gets,then the "basic luxury" comfort expected to be enough to satisfy young african women(house rent,foreign channels,nails and hair money...) and in some of the wildest cases of this it sometimes went as far as deaths of those donors for the spiritual reasons,which lead to strong anger for some of those dancers about being involved in such dark secrets with so little reward compared to the familial pressure where they have to sometimes pay scholarship of all their siblings and their children,their medical care and so on throughout their careers
two other roles which have emerged of late are that they are sometimes told by leaders to go and get numbers of women in the crowd or sometimes on stage when a woman comes to salute/give money/take a selfie and then an artistic one which consists in some groups for the most experienced dancers to be able to tell guitarists that a string is off tune or things like that instead,or also the two dancers on the left and right of leaders have sometimes responsability to remind them of lyrics as sometimes they come freshly from a meeting,or straight from sex in bed and need a couple of songs to get their act together and remember the right order of their songs

Talking about stealing aura's from businessmen. Is that also another reason, next to jealousy of bandleaders not wanting their musicians to sleep with the dancers ? Because I remember during Covid, Jordan Kusa in his live on Instragram with I think Lodia H2O talking about 'nikisi', indirectly that it attracted bad luck to bandmembers who were doing that.

Going back to the part of 'stealing aura', is that not the reason why bandleaders act weird to influent donors and fans, or/also ignoring them when they are down, not giving shout-outs anymore until they pass away and then suddenly saying that they were important to the band, giving tribute, etc.

CHAPTER TWO: FEMALE DANCERS

The name explains itself,female dancers primary role is to be part of the dancing section of the group and participate either with choreographies during rumbas,collective choreographies with the band on sebene songs and generiques and their own choreographies which are often used to give reserve members of the backline some playing time,or one of the steps towards becoming a first team instrumentist
their participation in congolese music covers most of its history and in this part we will talk about their conditions of work,their rights,their obligations,the advantages and the bad sides of being a female dancer in DRC and also their hidden roles

-SALARY,RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

dancers' payment often depends from the structure of payment of the group,but what is certain in most cases is that their salary is often smaller than those of men,and leaders use as reason the fact that they have to pay for their hair nails and so on
so in average the dancers rarely topped the 100 dollars a month official salary,and sometimes an artist like koffi olomide when he had the strict monthly structure who would pay a certain amount for an already proven dancer joining his band as a sign on fee which could in some cases to 3000 dollars to sign a contract then 100 150 200 depending of how popular the dancer was before joining
they have like their male colleagues of all the departments to be their at the rehearsals,concerts and reunions,and they have often a bigger right in benefitting treatment in case of illness then men,for two reasons,the first being the natural one that in african mentality women need a bit more care than men,then another one which will be explained later on in the post

-THE PROS AND THE CONS OF BEING A DANCER IN DRC

two of the biggest pros of being a dancer is a certain fame you can acquire via being seen on tv and the fact of travelling around the world if you manage to get into the list
the biggest con by far is the fact that female dancers are extremely sexualised,they are seen by many people in the society like prostitutes and " a shameful job" and unfortunately the behavior of some of them on stage never helped get that bad reputation away
therefore it leads to an "universal" rule in bands of drc,that they dont have the right to date male musicians of the band and have the obligation in most cases to move to another group or to retire from dancing to protect the relationship
leaders' reason behind that rule is that they claim its a threat for the group's harmony because for example a rift can start during a concert because a guy came to shower money on the female dancer and got too close physically or vice versa
but in reality the reason is that most leaders love having dancers who dont have any engagement even outside the group so that they can use them for their sexual satisfaction
and in most of the cases it works,because of the women's desperation for fame/luxury life but also because of the familial pressure i mention in the other post,very few dancers manage to say no and stand by their stance
and it has been going on for decades and while we could have have expected it to change,it still continues even down to the urban music generation,and sometimes on advice of elders,without giving names i will for example mention an elder telling ferre in front of me you see them dancers you can have good fun with them if you want you can even sleep two of them at the same time after concerts
then outside of their roles for the pleasure of their leaders,they have an hidden role that i will talk about in the next part

THE HIDDEN ROLES

the oldest hidden role of female dancers is that they are sent to donors,either on the donor's demand in order to upgrade their involvement in donorship,or on mission to lure a uprising donor so that he concentrates most his money on that band and gives less to the others
this role also has at times a hidden spiritual agenda,in the sense that dancers are sent to sleep with those donors to steal their aura and then enhance their leader's as he'd sleep with them after
for those roles most of the times the reward is a very tiny part of the amount the leader himself gets,then the "basic luxury" comfort expected to be enough to satisfy young african women(house rent,foreign channels,nails and hair money...) and in some of the wildest cases of this it sometimes went as far as deaths of those donors for the spiritual reasons,which lead to strong anger for some of those dancers about being involved in such dark secrets with so little reward compared to the familial pressure where they have to sometimes pay scholarship of all their siblings and their children,their medical care and so on throughout their careers
two other roles which have emerged of late are that they are sometimes told by leaders to go and get numbers of women in the crowd or sometimes on stage when a woman comes to salute/give money/take a selfie and then an artistic one which consists in some groups for the most experienced dancers to be able to tell guitarists that a string is off tune or things like that instead,or also the two dancers on the left and right of leaders have sometimes responsability to remind them of lyrics as sometimes they come freshly from a meeting,or straight from sex in bed and need a couple of songs to get their act together and remember the right order of their songs

thank you for this.
Elaborate the role of the chef of the dancers and her remuneration.
I also noticed a lot of these dancers end up settling abroad.

their role is pretty simple,they'll for example be in charge of buying the outfits or going to take them where they hire for a clip for example and stuff like that,then of course they are in many cases the top  sidekick among the dancers,so the prices i mentioned  are more or less that,100 200 300 a month or every other month and mainly the advantage like sometimes rent,some clothes and cosmetic....

CHAPTER TWO: FEMALE DANCERS

The name explains itself,female dancers primary role is to be part of the dancing section of the group and participate either with choreographies during rumbas,collective choreographies with the band on sebene songs and generiques and their own choreographies which are often used to give reserve members of the backline some playing time,or one of the steps towards becoming a first team instrumentist
their participation in congolese music covers most of its history and in this part we will talk about their conditions of work,their rights,their obligations,the advantages and the bad sides of being a female dancer in DRC and also their hidden roles

-SALARY,RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

dancers' payment often depends from the structure of payment of the group,but what is certain in most cases is that their salary is often smaller than those of men,and leaders use as reason the fact that they have to pay for their hair nails and so on
so in average the dancers rarely topped the 100 dollars a month official salary,and sometimes an artist like koffi olomide when he had the strict monthly structure who would pay a certain amount for an already proven dancer joining his band as a sign on fee which could in some cases to 3000 dollars to sign a contract then 100 150 200 depending of how popular the dancer was before joining
they have like their male colleagues of all the departments to be their at the rehearsals,concerts and reunions,and they have often a bigger right in benefitting treatment in case of illness then men,for two reasons,the first being the natural one that in african mentality women need a bit more care than men,then another one which will be explained later on in the post

-THE PROS AND THE CONS OF BEING A DANCER IN DRC

two of the biggest pros of being a dancer is a certain fame you can acquire via being seen on tv and the fact of travelling around the world if you manage to get into the list
the biggest con by far is the fact that female dancers are extremely sexualised,they are seen by many people in the society like prostitutes and " a shameful job" and unfortunately the behavior of some of them on stage never helped get that bad reputation away
therefore it leads to an "universal" rule in bands of drc,that they dont have the right to date male musicians of the band and have the obligation in most cases to move to another group or to retire from dancing to protect the relationship
leaders' reason behind that rule is that they claim its a threat for the group's harmony because for example a rift can start during a concert because a guy came to shower money on the female dancer and got too close physically or vice versa
but in reality the reason is that most leaders love having dancers who dont have any engagement even outside the group so that they can use them for their sexual satisfaction
and in most of the cases it works,because of the women's desperation for fame/luxury life but also because of the familial pressure i mention in the other post,very few dancers manage to say no and stand by their stance
and it has been going on for decades and while we could have have expected it to change,it still continues even down to the urban music generation,and sometimes on advice of elders,without giving names i will for example mention an elder telling ferre in front of me you see them dancers you can have good fun with them if you want you can even sleep two of them at the same time after concerts
then outside of their roles for the pleasure of their leaders,they have an hidden role that i will talk about in the next part

THE HIDDEN ROLES

the oldest hidden role of female dancers is that they are sent to donors,either on the donor's demand in order to upgrade their involvement in donorship,or on mission to lure a uprising donor so that he concentrates most his money on that band and gives less to the others
this role also has at times a hidden spiritual agenda,in the sense that dancers are sent to sleep with those donors to steal their aura and then enhance their leader's as he'd sleep with them after
for those roles most of the times the reward is a very tiny part of the amount the leader himself gets,then the "basic luxury" comfort expected to be enough to satisfy young african women(house rent,foreign channels,nails and hair money...) and in some of the wildest cases of this it sometimes went as far as deaths of those donors for the spiritual reasons,which lead to strong anger for some of those dancers about being involved in such dark secrets with so little reward compared to the familial pressure where they have to sometimes pay scholarship of all their siblings and their children,their medical care and so on throughout their careers
two other roles which have emerged of late are that they are sometimes told by leaders to go and get numbers of women in the crowd or sometimes on stage when a woman comes to salute/give money/take a selfie and then an artistic one which consists in some groups for the most experienced dancers to be able to tell guitarists that a string is off tune or things like that instead,or also the two dancers on the left and right of leaders have sometimes responsability to remind them of lyrics as sometimes they come freshly from a meeting,or straight from sex in bed and need a couple of songs to get their act together and remember the right order of their songs

Talking about stealing aura's from businessmen. Is that also another reason, next to jealousy of bandleaders not wanting their musicians to sleep with the dancers ? Because I remember during Covid, Jordan Kusa in his live on Instragram with I think Lodia H2O talking about 'nikisi', indirectly that it attracted bad luck to bandmembers who were doing that.

Going back to the part of 'stealing aura', is that not the reason why bandleaders act weird to influent donors and fans, or/also ignoring them when they are down, not giving shout-outs anymore until they pass away and then suddenly saying that they were important to the band, giving tribute, etc.

Yes because sometimes they feel like the donor "took what they had to take",there is a lot of hypocricy in the relationship with donors,and without trying to be too obscene it goes even with men since some donors like to do stuff with men aswell
the thing is that when the female dancers are sent on mission leaders prepare their thing already and have to be the next one sleeping to start gradually taking away the power from the guy,so they continuously take the money and then contribute to your downfall spiritually aswell and by the time you are down there is 10 guys on a massive rise desperate to cement their names
i wont give the name in public but one leader literally grabbed a musician once with his two hands on his neck and lifted him on the wall because he was furious that "abebisaki makambu" and then that musician ended up missing trips  as a punition for years

Interesting information.  Just for the sake of my understanding, who are the donors ?.  Can you give some example?.  Secodnly any idea how much does it cost to hire a Congolese band for concerts, celebrations festivals.....etc ?.

there are so many of them,whether from some business,or some dodgy activities,or business as undercover for dodgy activities....
an example,i will say didi kinuani who in his prime of sponsorship could pay 20 tickets for a band on his own to europe which is like 30K euros,the prices completely depend from the level of popularity of the artist,then the relationship with the organizer,they can give a concert almost for free to certain people then have a low cut price to some then have a compromise between their demand and what promoters offer,then cases where they go straight for top dollar like for example in ivory coast you can be sure that if the guy wants 50k or the 100 he is most likely getting it(fally ferre jb werra koffi in particular)
them there are some artists who in the build of their career can accept lower prices while they are building network,and then in the long run it can open a lot of doors to them and some who chose to stick by their demands and then look like not touring that much until their hits still get them touring a bit naturally somebody like ferre for example for having worked a bit with him long ago does not want to hear about playing for peanuts because in the future it could help in something he takes it very personal like you are disrespecting his job,unless like i said above relationship plays a role

Thanks bro. Well understood.

REHEARSALS

rehearsals are a crucial part of congolese music,whether in terms of building Chemistry within a new band from a leader coming from a big band,or to help an already established band maintain or improve their rendition of previous work or to prepare concerts after the release of a new album,because in a lot of cases now a fairly important part of albums is not rehearsed,they modify,improvise and change some stuff in studio,some songs even are created and rehearsed in studio straight away during the recording process,so as leaders tend to forget the order of some lyrics,they need the band to rehearse those songs a lot in order to avoid as much as possible reversing order of verses of a song
and obviously a part from the singing parts,there is the dancing aspect where leader and bandmembers rehearse past dance moves and try to create together new moves or the leader comes and validâtes what he finds interesting,the rehearsals also have a recruiting aspect as sometimes since there is almost no public concert with big podiums sponsored by big mobile and beer companies in the "popular areas" people aspiring to join groups are coming to rehearsals to pass a test,more often than not,with the intervention of an influent band member sometimes in exchange of money
that being said,like various other aspects of our music,rehearsals have their rules which can vary from a group or another but there is a lot of similarities in general that i managed to assemble through my inquiries

1- Transport

in most groups,there is allowance after rehearsals to "help musicians" get back home,it can go from very minimal fees like 10000 congolese francs to sometimes 50 100 dollars when the leader is in a fantastic mood after a series of lucrative deals,but its not Something respected automatically by most bands,a lot of leaders or their staffs consider that being next to them is a big enough spotlight for you as a musician to not have to depend from them for any little thing,so in a lot of cases the leader will just storm out of the rehearsal Driving his porsche range rover ferrari rolls and so on fast and his staff giving the sulking musicians the most rude possible answer to feel important
complaining too vehemently and too frequently about it can lead to the leader and his jesters forceing out,especially when you are an influent figure of the band as they'll suspect you of being capable to build a rebellion within the band

2 Hour of arrival/outfit of rehearsal

the starting hour of rehearsals is often decided by the leaders and their chefs,however some musicians have a different treatment in terms of respecting that hour,first of all the leaders themselves come when they want or come but start rehearsing when they one even if they want to rehearse for 5 minutes after the band completing 6 hours of rehearsal nobody can say anything to them in principle,a couple of times musicians named chef de repetition(chief of rehearsal)tried to test their influence with that role by telling leaders they would not rehearse for coming late or confronting the leader for singing out of tune when they start got some members in deep trouble
then there is sometimes influent members who are allowed to come late without faceing punishment,or also some favorite of the chefs

3 Alcohol Witchcraft and Drugs

alcohol is authorized in rehearsals,and even though it were to be prohibited,a lot of band members found a trick with those traditional drinks which are a for most transparent or they hide it in a coloured bottle
drugs and especially weed is meant to be forbidden in bands but its a bypassed rule,or if they are not smoking at rehearsals they'd go in a house or en empty school  not too far to smoke
there is also an important part about witchcraft in many groups,in fact in some groups the toilets and the space in front or sometimes also behind the podium are like an open temple for either proven musicians of the bands either fighting each other or individually trying to shine especially when its rehearsals with crowd,or also those coming for tests being denied access to toilets in anticipation of witchcraft,for example one of the famous cases of that with nono fudji's test in bcbg where he had to go home as he felt uncomfortable with stress and was denied access by bodyguards who suspected him wanting to put a curse so that his test is succesful and had to come again hours after
officially leaders are against that but like with weed its something most leaders struggle to fully control

4 dancers

now this is a very secret rule only known by a few people,then indirectly observed and noticed by band members,in many bands dancers have a silent obligation to stay after rehearsals so that leader picks "who he wants" that day,or a top donor,but its done in a subtle way its not like a strict order that everybody knows,there is specific days for that and if the dancer runs away when made aware its "her turn" she can be in trouble
its not something which happens every single week but a lot of times in a year as i am told by a few dancers i got feedback from

REHEARSALS

4 dancers

now this is a very secret rule only known by a few people,then indirectly observed and noticed by band members,in many bands dancers have a silent obligation to stay after rehearsals so that leader picks "who he wants" that day,or a top donor,but its done in a subtle way its not like a strict order that everybody knows,there is specific days for that and if the dancer runs away when made aware its "her turn" she can be in trouble
its not something which happens every single week but a lot of times in a year as i am told by a few dancers i got feedback from

Hehehe
Elaborate some more here. Who arranged for this,the chieftain?

Its planned between the leader and his stafff and his jesters,and sometimes the cheftaine,unless she is a very jealous one
some cheftaines just understand "its the system" and pleasing the leaders potentially get them more money to face the big problematic of families looking up to you a lot when you are in a big band