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"So it makes me more of a pan-African in this fight," he told the BBC.

"He has not only spoken about Africa's struggles but has physically gone to marginalised areas, showing solidarity with victims of war, displacement and injustice," said Father Stan Chu Ilo, president of the Pan-African Catholic Theological Network.

Cissé was also a double winner of the grand prize at the biannual Pan-African Film Festival, Fespaco.

The music, which also spotlights the role of Congolese rumba in pan-African liberation, functions not as mere soundtrack but what Grimonprez calls a “historical agent.”

A pan-African alliance of finance institutions - including the African Development Bank - has recently been working together to help attract private investment to the project.