The best Manu Dibango’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Manu Dibango’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Manu Dibango.
Africa Rising
How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a nicer portrait of this amazing continent, historically known for tragic subjects, such as slavery, famine, war and political chaos.
Soul Power
7.1/10
Soul Power is a 2008 documentary film about the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa which accompanied the Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in October 1974. The film was made from archival footage; other footage shot at the time focusing on the fight was edited to form the film When We Were Kings.
Black Dju
6.1/10
This standard slice-of-life drama is about Dju Dibonga (Richard Courcet), a young man who leaves his home on Cabo Verde, an island of Portuguese dependency off the coast of Africa, to go to Luxembourg and search for his father. Far from his home village and unfamiliar with the large city, the young black man forms an unlikely friendship with a down-and-out white policeman whose only consolation in life is found at the bottom of a bottle. Their developing companionship forms the main focus of this movie directed by Pol Cruchten.
The Rumba Kings
7.6/10
Celebrate the epic quest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an African nation that fought colonial oppression, found freedom, and forged a new identity through music.
Manu Dibango fête ses 80 ans à l'Olympia de Paris
The Rumba Kings
The Rumba Kings is a documentary that unveils the brighter and ignored side of a country that the mass media has always associated with rape, war, poverty and corruption: The Democratic Republic of Congo. The Rumba Kings shows us that in the Democratic Republic of Congo, not so long ago, there were bands and musicians as talented as The Beatles, and as famous in the African continent as The Rolling Stones are in the West. Congo’s capital Kinshasa was the musical center of Africa for more than 30 years. Furthermore, the documentary tells us that Congolese Rumba is disappearing, leaving almost no trace since there are no video archives, no master audio tapes of the best bands and musicians, and not even musical notation documents of the thousands of songs produced in that era.
