She was a singer of traditional songs, like many women in Mushie, a village in Bandundu province, where he was born in 1925.

ECONOMIST: Papa Wendo

Werrason owes his huge popularity not merely to his music, which is quite ordinary, but to the partisan support of people from his Bandundu province east of Kinshasa, including most of the capital's street-boys.

ECONOMIST: Congolese music