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ROOTS, RETURN AND EXCHANGEThe African Route
A root, and a return
Reggae's own name for its central idea is repatriation -- Africa not as metaphor but as a place to actually go. This walk follows that idea in both directions: the reggae artists who travelled to Africa, the African artists who built reggae scenes of their own, the parallel Pan-African current that grew up alongside it in Lagos, and the present-day exchange in which West African artists are now the ones citing Jamaica.