Global Hit
The world of African music is still honoring a man who died 20 years ago this week. Francois Luambo Makiadi � or Franco � was once hailed as the King of Congolese rumba. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Afropop Worldwide’s Banning Eyre, who met Franco in the last years of his life.
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