Omen (Augure) review – Baloji offers secrets and sorcery in Congolese homecoming
Musician and film-maker Baloji’s complex story about a Belgian-Congolese man who brings his white wife home to DRC to meet the family is bold and tonally elusive
September 2015
The playlist
The playlist: African pop – Baloji, Sipho the Gift, Runtown and more
Electronic rap from Baloji, dancehall from Runtown and South African hip-hop from DJ Clock
November 2012
Baloji – review
Baloji deserves a bigger audience for his energetic, engaging and highly original jumble of Congolese music and hip-hop, writes Robin Denselow
This week's new live music
This week's new live music
Baloji | Tinariwen | Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Festival | Wolfgang Rihm | Django Bates' Beloved | Purity Ring
Guardian Africa network
Baloji takes hip-hop attitude to Congo
Distinctive Belgian-Congolese rapper says playing with accepted codes and conventions brings new meanings to his art
August 2012
New Africa
Africa Express: a magical mystery tour
Eighty musicians, one train and a string of stops across Britain. This could be the most extraordinary tour of the year, says Caspar Llewellyn Smith
January 2012
Baloji/Orchestra Baobab – review
A young contender from the Congo goes head-to-head with the greatest veteran band in west Africa, writes Robin Denselow
December 2011
Baloji: Karibu Ya Bintou - video
Baloji: Le jour d'apres - video
November 2011
Baloji: Kinshasa Succursale – review
Francophonic rap meets traditional African sounds on Baloji's engaging roots albums, writes Neil Spencer
The Guardian's Music Podcast
Music Weekly podcast: St Vincent
Singer-songwriter Annie Erin Clark, aka St Vincent, talks about making her new album, while we review tracks from Leonard Cohen, J Cole and Trey Songz, and Congolese rapper Baloji
Baloji: Kinshasa Succursale – review
The rapper returns to the country of his birth for an entertaining set that's largely thanks to the fine Kinshasa musicians he persuaded to join him, writes Robin Denselow
