When Peter Tosh released Mama Africa in 1983, the album arrived as more than another reggae record in the catalogue of a former Wailer. It sounded like a declaration of return, an artist reaching beyond Jamaica and the global circuits of reggae to locate himself within a larger African inheritance.
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