Beside the music, Papa Wemba tried his hands into films and received critical acclaims but also achieved both fame and notoriety in his male role in the 1987 film, “La Vie Est Belle. In 1997, he got ...

I MET him for the first time in May 1999. Not in person, though - a pity because that would have been my eternal pleasure. I was in Abuja to cover the handover of power from the military government of ...

Congolese singer Papa Wemba is appearing in court in France charged with aiding illegal immigration. BBC News Online profiles one of Africa's biggest music stars. Papa Wemba, whose real name is Shungu ...