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Soukous is a genre of dance music that originated from Cuban Rumba music in the Belgian Congo and French Congo during the 1940s and gained popularity throughout Africa. Soukous is known as Congo in West Africa and Lingala in Kenya Uganda and Tanzania after the Lingala language of the lyrics. In Zambia and Zimbabwe where Congolese music is also influential it is still usually referred to as Rumba. It mixes the kwasa kwasa with the fast tempo zouk style and Congolese rumba.