• The Music of Central Africa: An Ethnomusicological Study: Former French Equatorial Africa, the Former Belgian Congo, Ruanda-Urundi Uganda, Tanganyika by Rose Brandel, 1973.

• Artistic Dynamos: An Ethnography on Music in Central African Kingdoms by Brian Schrag, 2021.
  

• Music Saved Them, They Say: Social Impacts of Music-Making and Learning in Kinshasa by Lukas Pairon, 2021.

• "The Genesis of Urban Music in Zaïre" by Kazadi wa Mukuna, African Music, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1992.

• "The Changing Role of the Guitar in the Urban Music of Zaire" by Kazadi wa Mukuna, The World of Music, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1994.

• "The Evolution of Urban Music in Democratic Republic of Congo during the 2nd & 3rd Decades (1975-1995) of the Second Republic — Zaïre" by Kazadi wa Mukuna, African Music, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1999.
  

• “Congolese Rumba and Other Cosmopolitanisms” by Bob. W. White, Cahiers D’études Africaines, January 2002.

• “Variations on the Beautiful in the Congolese World of Sounds” by Mbembe Achille, Politique Africaine, Vol. 100, No. 4, 2005.

• “Music of Central African Republic,” Wikiwand.

• “Polyphonic Singing of the Aka Pygmies of Central Africa,” UNESCO, 2008.

• “Making Violence Ordinary: Radio, Music and the Rwandan Genocide” by Jason McCoy, African Music, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2009.

• "Revisiting the Katanga Guitar Style(s) and Some Other Early African Guitar Idioms" by David Racanelli, Black Music Research Journal Vol. 36, No. 1, 2016.

• “Instrument Journeys: Harps from Central Africa,” Musical Instrument Museum, August 2021.

• “The Roots and Rhythms of the Congo” by Pat Sinclair, The Washington Times, June 2016.

• “The Evolution of Hocketing” by Eli Zeger, Red Bull Music Academy, February 2018.

• “Congolese Rumba: Why the Dance Recognised by UNESCO is Special, and What Its Heritage Designation Means to Two African Nations” by Agence France-Presse, South China Morning Post, December 2021.

• “Beneath the Rhythm, Congolese Rumba Is a Link to the Past” by Goma and Kinasha, The Economist, January 2022.

• “Central Africa Reignites Use of Traditional Instruments and Sounds,” Africanews, September 2021.

• “From Nkumba to Rumba: the Rich Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Congos,” UNESCO, March 2022.

FILMS & SERIES

• The Rumba Kings, dir. Alan Brain, 2021. 1h 34m.

PODCASTS & RADIO

• “Is Congolese Rumba Being Put On the Map?” by Karnie Sharp, Africa Daily, 2022. 12m.

• “Congolese Rumba: Surviving the Pop Apocalypse” by Afropop Worldwide, September 2016. 59m.

• “A Taste of Congolese Rumba” by Tom Schanbel, KCRW, November 2017. 37m.

• “The Real Story of Congolese Rumba with Kukuniungu Nkumu M Nekongo” by Necof Radio, April 2022. 17m.

• “Papa Wemba, the King of Rumba” by Autour De L’Arbre, Around the Tree, June 2022. 39m.

• “Episode 60: Carsten Höller” by Arman Nafeéi, Air We On Air?, March 2022. 1h 10m.