Reception
Ed Ward in a 1976 review in Rolling Stone felt that the music was rootsy and compelling, but that it wouldn't be understood by American audiences, and that the lead song about Marcus Garvey wouldn't make sense to anyone who didn't know Jamaican culture.
Robert Christgau felt that it was the most African sounding and most political reggae album to be released in America at the time.
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