A Return Not a Discovery
Richard Cook, NME, 11 September 1982
The New African Music, part one: "More difficult to cage than reggae. It leaps and sprawls... It can go on and on because nobody wants it to stop... It moves emblazoned with an urgency that never quite spills into panic..." A musical safari through Tanzania and Kenya
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