Since his first band in 1969, Papa Wemba became the apologist of mixed musical types; we receive, he says, the influence of countless tendencies: afro-cuban music, rock, rhythm and blues, all added to our traditional rhythmic.Since then, Papa Wemba sings always in his mother tongue, the lingala. But when he decided to live in Paris in 1988, he deliberately directed his attention towards an ambitious cosmopolitanism.He returns to Kinshasa after one year's absence and we followed him in his musical journeys: he works with his percussionists, sings in the chapel of a church from his childhood, returns to the fetish discos from his youth, gives raving concerts and stirs everywhere a warm welcome.