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Double Time

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Timaya Live in Concert. Image Credit: Star Music Trek

We are back with the monthly chart of the “Top World Carnival Tunes” for March 2015. Enjoy this round of tunes, and remember to visit the HDD blog for all the great up-to-the-time-ness out of London. And browse the archive of our recommendations.

Timaya x Sanko (Remix Feat Destra)

Like all good things sometimes a little spice is need to make something great just a little bit better. Timaya’s Sanko has been the song of the past couple of month’s and the addition of Trinidad’s own Destra makes this song even more so. hopefully this song will be as successful as Timaya’s last Carribean Collaboration with Sean Paul.

Sarkodie x Ojuelegba (Wizkid Cover/Remix)

Even though they sped up the original’s beat to make it sound a tad like dembow, this remix is great. The double time flow of Sarkodie over this laidback thankful song is a great combination.

Edanos x Whine For Me (Feat. Timaya)

Newcomer Edanos teams up with Timaya for this dancehall flavored piece of afropop. This really could be a cousin to Sanko, which if this is going to be a formula we are happy with. Highlife-esque chorus’s with early nineties Taxi Gang-esque riddims.

Nidia Minaj x Ne Assim

Jess and Crabbe of Bazzerk records have been releasing Afro-digital dance music for the past couple of years. Their latest release features recent interviewee Nidia Minaj, you really don’t want to miss out on one of the world’s rising stars.

Frenchy Le Boss x Flexing (Feat. Giggs)

Although the grime scene here in the Uk is getting its ovedue shine, the “rap scene’ is also getting interesting again. Here multilingual Frenchy Le Boos (born in Paris, raised in South London) teams up with London mainstay Giggs over the most invasion not produced by invasion beat of all time.

Further Reading

On Safari

On our annual publishing break, Gaza’s genocide continues to unfold in real time yet slips from public grasp. This is not just a crisis of politics, but of how reality is mediated—and why we must build spaces where meaning can still take root.

The battle over the frame

As Hollywood recycles pro-war propaganda for Gen Z, Youssef Chahine’s ‘Djamila, the Algerian’ reminds us that anti-colonial cinema once turned imperial film language against its makers—and still can.

Fictions of freedom

K. Sello Duiker’s ‘The Quiet Violence of Dreams’ still haunts Cape Town, a city whose beauty masks its brutal exclusions. Two decades later, in the shadow of Amazon’s new development, its truths are more urgent than ever.

When things fall apart

Against a backdrop of global collapse, one exhibition used Chinua Achebe’s classic to hold space for voices from the Global South—and asked who gets to imagine the future.

The General sleeps

As former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari’s death is mourned with official reverence, a generation remembers the eight years that drove them out.

The grift tank

In Washington’s think tank ecosystem, Africa is treated as a low-stakes arena where performance substitutes for knowledge. The result: unqualified actors shaping policy on behalf of militarists, lobbyists, and frauds.

Kagame’s hidden war

Rwanda’s military deployments in Mozambique and its shadowy ties to M23 rebels in eastern Congo are not isolated interventions, rather part of a broader geopolitical strategy to expand its regional influence.