Somewhere in the music there's the ghost of
rumba and Cuban rhythm, as well as an African beat all its own, the dancers shaking and twisting to a dance known as ndombolo, the «dance of the parrot», which is based partly on the gait of the assassinated
Congolese president Laurent - Désiré Kabila, and partly on the walk of Vieux Marcel, a gorilla in Kinshasa zoo.