A Zimbabwean man has been sentenced to eight life sentences and an additional 88 years by a South African court for murder and rape. Themba Prince Willard Dube is accused of kidnapping and murdering seven women in Limpopo province. More here:
Jacobs Odongo SeamanLokassa is reputed for hits such as Bonne Annee, Monica, and Marie-Josse, as well as medleys Lagos Night and Nairobi Night
Lokassa, who was 77, died on Tuesday night at a hospital in Nashua in New Hampishire, US, where he had been living since 1996. The band, formed in Paris in 1989, battled for attention during the Soukous explosion of the 1990s with Aurlus Mabele’s Loketo. He was 22 in 1968 when he joined Tabu Ley Rochereau’s then African Fiesta Nationale, where he spent 10 years in near obscurity alongside more prominent guitarists such as Attel Mbumba, Mavatiku Visi, and Dino Vangu.
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