Tiken Jah Fakoly: African Revolution – review

(Wrasse)Reggae has been a major force in African music ever since Bob Marley visited the continent, but it has often been difficult for African performers to produce a distinctively African reggae fusion. Youssou N'Dour's Dakar-Kingston, partly recorded at the Tuff Gong studio in Jamaica, is the latest disappointing example. Congratulations, then, to Tiken Jah Fakoly for an album that's refreshingly different. He has always been an outsider, an exile from the Ivory Coast who settled in Mali, whe...

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