I had a brief confusion over which was the artist name and which the album title. It turns out that the album is named after a black nationalist activist who championed a "back to Africa" movement to return African Americans to their countries of ancestral origin.
With the music, like I said for Bob's "Natty Dread", I find reggae enjoyable enough but a bit samey. Like, at no point while listening to the album did I find it 'bad' but, every other song started with the same little drum fill and most had the same drum beat and whicky guitar on the off-beat etc. "Jordan River" had a bit of a different feel, but most of the music just acted as a pleasant background.
Apparently the record company remixed the album to make it more digestible to a white audience, which I would usually take to mean that they declawed it a little in the process?
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