"With his album African Revolution, Tiken Jah Fakoly created a fresh new African reggae style by recording in Jamaica and then adding West African instruments. The Mali-based political exile from Ivory Coast uses the same technique on this new set of reggae covers, on which he is joined by a remarkable cast. It starts with "Is It Because I'm Black?", a hit in Jamaica for Ken Boothe in 1973, which now begins with gentle African kora, n'goni and balafon as Fakoly duets with an on-form Boothe, before Jamaica's legendary rhythm section Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare kick in ... An inventive set".