Pan African Allstars - African Reggae Music

Nigeria's Sonny Okusuns paved the way for an explosion of African Reggae, with his best selling records of the late 1970s that blended the Jamaican form with West African highlife and Juju music. It was the next decade however that African Reggae took off with Lucky Dube and Alpha Blondy emerging with their own brand of African Reggae. While not in the same league as far as record sales other performers made an impact with their own brand of African Reggae. Including Nigeria's Mandators, Ras Kimono, Evi Edna Ogholi-Ogosi, Zimbabwe's John Chibadura , Senegal's Adioa, Askia Modibo from Mali a former associate of Alpha Blondy. The Reggae influences have echoes of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, Jimmy Cliff, Third World and Steel Pulse. Alpha Blondy and Lucky Dube both have huge following in Africa and around the world. They are only the tip of the African Reggae music scene.