Africando's "Mario":

The World

We leave you with one of the biggest dance numbers ever to hit the Democratic Republic of Congo. The tune "Mario" by the late great Congolese rumba singer and guitarist Franco. Except this version that came out several years after his death got a straight-on mambo treatment by the Senegalese band Africando.

Sign up for our daily newsletter

Sign up for The Top of the World, delivered to your inbox every weekday morning.