I don't think that Pepe Felly Manuaku will be happy with this interview. I thinking and wondering alot of stuff about Grand Zaiko and Victoria Eleison, but I will not write it here otherwise people will use my long questions as information to write articles for their instagram-pages to get alot of likes and reactions without crediting Congovibes as source
I saw a page of Ferre-fans on Tiktok using a part of Djudju's interview to attack Fally
I was dissapointed with Djudju's interview. The "me" came to much back and there some parts that I don't believe. I am wondering if it's his age or if he maybe became ill. I also felt like he grew up in a family that had a superiority-complex towards black people, what some mulatos had in Congo during the colonial days. Next to mentioning Cameroon, it was not clear for me if he what the roots of his parents were when he talked about his place of birth, what his family used to do and his theory about African Jazz birth. Are his parents from Congo-Brazzaville, Angola or DR Congo. I didn't like how he said that people coming later in Kinshasa came from Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda,etc. It's true that the people living in Kinshasa came from elsewhere (provinces), bawuta like people in Kinshasa say but they are not foreign. About him talking to African Jazz, I don't think that we'll know the truth, because they all passed away. Most bands that that we know in Congolese music history weren't founded by the bandleaders. I don't believe that outside Grand Kalle Jeff, there were former musicians that explained on television how African Jazz got founded. Also at that time they hadn't the mentality to openly say on tv about x being originally written by y
Emeneya often liked to call or expose Koffi on tv for being a thief and acting like he was a saint. But he did basically the same, by doing what he did to Djudju after Abeti's Zenith. It's sad that Otis and Malembe Chante passed away. I would like to hear their versions about their time within Victoria Eleison. Malembe Chante did several interviews, but didn't do interviews people like Mr la Rumba and Mbuta Likasu who have more knowledge about our music, which leaves a untold stories and questions unanswered. We will never know for example about the origin of Malembe Chante's Select Musica.
It seems that Malembe Chante left Victoria Eleison several times to return in no-time. Was Victoria Eleison's concert of Tshikapa the same event that late Mopero was talking about in his testimonies ?
