General Defao was not tall, but he was big,” writes Bob White in his book, “Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire. “He had an underbite smile, and a pleasant demeanour,” he adds.

Renowned Congolese singer and songwriter Lulendo Matumona aka General Defao is dead. Defao, 62, died on Monday, December 27, at the Laquintinie Hospital in Douala, Cameroon, where he was admitted. The ...

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Trouble never seems to stop haunting Congolese dance maestro, Le General Matumona Lulendo Defao. Last Friday he was hauled out of his hotel room in Nairobi Kenya and ushered into a fully packed ...

Harare — CONGOLESE music sensation, General Defao, who was supposed to perform in Harare last weekend, failed to turn up because he had been detained by Kenyan authorities over an unpaid hotel bill, ...

General Defao was not tall, but he was big,” writes Bob White in his book, “Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire. “He had an underbite smile, and a pleasant demeanour,” he adds.