Cat No MANTCD050

Alpha Blondy is among the world's most popular reggae artists whose recordings, including gold-selling albums, have, for over 20 years, offered reggae with a distinctive African feel. He’s also an outspoken social commentator - with anthems promoting morality, love and peace - who has been known to sing to Moslem audiences in Hebrew, and to Israelis in Arabic.

Indeed his reputation as the "enfant terrible" of African reggae has given the media a field day, and stories of his volatile personality, unstable personal life and a string of nervous breakdowns abound. But nobody can deny the influence and power of Blondy's hard-hitting music-with-a-message. Here we present the best of that music and the strongest of those messages.

18 tracks with approximately 80 minutes of music from one of Africa’s most popular artists

Unique selection featuring the best of his roots and protest songs

Compiled by Kwaku, noted writer on reggae and African music