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• Folk & WorldSoukousCongolese dance music descended from Cuban rumba — interlocking electric guitars, Lingala-language vocals and the sebene high-speed payoff.
• Latin & CaribbeanCongolese RumbaCongolese rumba — the Cuban-influenced guitar-band music that became Sub-Saharan Africa's dominant pop form for fifty years.
• PopNdomboloCongolese dance pop derived from soukous, defined by its accelerated rhythm section and the seben guitar break.
• Folk & WorldBikutsiCameroonian Beti dance music with a fast six-eight rhythm and a distinctive sliding-fifth electric-guitar style.
• Hip Hop / R&BMakossaCameroonian urban dance music from Douala — funky basslines, prominent horns, and Manu Dibango's global reach.
• Folk & WorldAka Pygmy PolyphonyDense vocal counterpoint from the Aka forest people of the Congo basin, with overlapping interlocking parts sung without a conductor.

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