Today I went to the capital of the DRC: Kinshasa. There, I learned about their culture,economy, government, art, and music. Music: Kwasa-kwasa is the local music, which can be heard very often by the local natives. Here the music dances are quite popular in the area, which is accompanied with musical instruments like the thumb piano and drums. Congo jazz and soukous is some of the pouplar tunes that are played along with a guitar. Mbuti natives have set along their own style of vocal tunes, which is widely accepted within the area. The art revolotion was started with the boom in the copper industry within the southern region of Katanga, a traditional art form was still maintained within the region wherein portraits were drafted within a copper sheet, thereby enclosed with clays and textures. Several
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