A bit of meta-commentary first: it feels like this album represents many of my issues with this list. This album, I think, "oh interesting, is this a well-known musician from Africa? What region?" and I find an accomplished singer-songwriter who worked with Harry Belafonte, put down some of the earliest recordings of popular Xhosa songs, got exiled from South Africa for protesting apartheid and then her visa cancelled by the USA because she married a Black Panther. I look up the artists behind forty different British guitar rock albums here and I find "guys who were born in Britain who were in a band". Anyway. I really liked some of this but disliked a lot too - it seems to me like the English-language songs feel sing-songy (negative) but the version here of "Mbube" is really great.