They drew as much on homegrown Motown and Philadelphia sounds as influences from abroad, like 1972’s “Soul Makossa” by Cameroonian jazz musician Manu Dibango. And indeed, many disco hits ...

Manu Dibango championed Makossa’s funky dance sound. His tune Soul Makossa was an international hit in 1972. Street music: Makossa has developed into the newer rhumba/makossa soukoss sound.

He was known as the most sampled of all African musicians. Dibango emerged in the 1970s with hit single Soul Makossa in 1972, but he had already been performing for more than a decade -- notably ...