These travels reinforced his feeling that all the music he heard in Europe originated from the 450 ethnic groups that made up his country, and that the tribalism that tore his country apart politically, could in fact become a unifying force.
Akiwa na umri wa miaka ya kati ya ishirini bendi ilipata safari ya kwenda Kongo ambako alipata fursa ya kutafuta sauti nyingine ambapo alifikiria kwamba sauti alizokuwa anazisikia Ulaya na zenye asili ya Kongo kutoka kwenye makabilia 450, na ambayo yamegawanyika kutokana na matatizo ya kisiasa yanaweza kuunganishwa pamoja.