Mingiedi Mawangu, Konono No. 1 Founder, Dead at 85

Mingiedi Mawangu, the founder of the influential “Congotronics” collective Konono Nº1, passed away Wednesday night in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the band confirmed on Facebook. He was 85. No cause of death was given. “[Mawangu] founded Konono Nº1 in the 1960s and invented his own electrified likembe,…