Papa Wemba, one of Africa's greatest music stars, died on Sunday after collapsing on stage during a festival in Cote d'Ivoire.

The Congolese world music legend, renowned as the "king of Congolese rumba" for the fusion of Cuban and electronic rock that he pioneered in the 1970s, was 66.

He died after falling ill during a set at the Urban Musical Festival Anoumabo in Abidjan, the first major cultural event in the country since a jihadist attack on a beach resort last month.