Soukous is a musical genre that originated in the Congos in the 1930s and early 1940s, and has gained popularity throughout Africa, and increasingly also Worldwide. Soukous is the name of a dance that was popular in the late 1960s, though the word now has a much broader meaning, and refers to all of the subsequent developments of this musical genre. Soukous is called Congo music in English-speaking West Africa. In Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania it is called lingala which refers to the Lingala language of the region from which the music originated. Soukouss is also sometimes called Kwassa Kwassa, which is a rhythmic dance that was popular in the 1980s and early 1990s, as well as Ndombolo, a variant of kwassa kwassa that is currently popular.
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