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It was 20 years ago this week that Francois Luambo Makiadi died. Or — more simply — as Franco. He was a major music figure in Africa, known — and still remembered — as the King of Congolese rumba.
Franco’s music making career ended when he died of AIDS in 1989. He was adored across Africa.
And that’s part of the reason the 20th anniversary of Franco’s death is prompting all sorts of appreciations of his life this week. One person who meet Franco in the last years of his life was Banning Eyre.
He’s Senior Editor for the PRI program Afropop Worldwide and its sister web site afropop.org
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