December 2000, Charles de Gaulle airport, Paris. The world music star Papa Wemba has just arrived from the Congo with his entourage. It's sizeable, which is not unexpected: Congolese music is fond of ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If I were better at organising things, one of the greatest legends of African music would have sung after my ...