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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

After the uprising

Years into Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict, the rebellion faces internal fractures, waning support, and military pressure—raising the question of what future, if any, lies ahead for Ambazonian aspirations.

In search of Saadia

Who was Saadia, and why has she been forgotten? A search for one woman’s story opens up bigger questions about race, migration, belonging, and the gaps history leaves behind.

Binti, revisited

More than two decades after its release, Lady Jaydee’s debut album still resonates—offering a window into Tanzanian pop, gender politics, and the sound of a generation coming into its own.

The bones beneath our feet

A powerful new documentary follows Evelyn Wanjugu Kimathi’s personal and political journey to recover her father’s remains—and to reckon with Kenya’s unfinished struggle for land, justice, and historical memory.

What comes after liberation?

In this wide-ranging conversation, the freedom fighter and former Constitutional Court justice Albie Sachs reflects on law, liberation, and the unfinished work of building a just South Africa.

The cost of care

In Africa’s migration economy, women’s labor fuels households abroad while their own needs are sidelined at home. What does freedom look like when care itself becomes a form of exile?

The memory keepers

A new documentary follows two women’s mission to decolonize Nairobi’s libraries, revealing how good intentions collide with bureaucracy, donor politics, and the ghosts of colonialism.

Making films against amnesia

The director of the Oscar-nominated film ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ reflects on imperial violence, corporate warfare, and how cinema can disrupt the official record—and help us remember differently.