French singer Gérald Toto's lilting melodies and imaginary language make his music truly universal and deeply comforting. He talks to RFI about his new solo album 'Sway': an invitation to be quiet in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The last we heard from Gérald Toto was on last year’s Toto Bona Lokua album, Bondeko, where he teamed up with ...

Sometimes, the best plan is no plan at all. That was the philosophy behind Toto Bona Lokua, a new album that blends West-African rhythms, vocal harmonies, pop and jazz. The musicians Lokua Kanza, ...

Twelve years between albums is a stretch, but the members of this innovative Afro-French trio have busy individual careers. Cameroon’s Richard Bona, Congo’s Lokua Kanza and the Antilles’ Gerald Toto ...

One of the first releases on No Format, the French label best known for its African music output (the current home of Ballaké Sissoko and Oumou Sangaré, for two) was Toto Bona Lokua, a collaboration ...