Wendo Kolosoy called ""Windsor"" (a homage to the Duke of Windsor and a play on the British Royalty theme of his band "Victoria Kin") which evolved into ""Wendo Sor"" and simply ""Sor"". He is most widely known as Wendo or Papa Wendo. In the mid-1940s, he began playing guitar around the capital Kinshasa (then Leopoldville) with his Cuban style band Victoria Bakolo Miziki. He had met Nicolas Jéronimidis, a Greek businessman, on a steamer returning to Leopoldville from Dakar in 1946, and in 1947 Jéronimidis agreed to record Wendo's music for his new Leopoldville based record label Ngoma. Imitating the bandleader Paul
Kimwenza Leopoldville. However, a site further north about in size on the crest called Mont Amba had the advantage of being even closer to the city, and in April 1952 the governor general Eugène Jungers ceded ownership of the site to the university. In July 1954 the university was placed under the direction of the Jesuits of the Catholic University of Louvain, and named Lovanium University. While the Jesuits aimed to educate an African elite, the Belgian colonial administration was hostile to this goal, and it was only in 1956 that they recognized the university. After independence it was to become