Various Artists: Fight The Fire - Digital Reggae, Conscious Roots & Dub In Nigeria 1986-1991 (2LP) [SOUNDWAY]

Why you'll love it

A 2LP set of 14 tracks from Nigeria's reggae scene of the late 1980s, from Orits Williki's title track to Sheila and Desmond Majekodunmi's 'Mother Nature.'

This edition

• 2LP set
• 14 tracks over four sides

About the album

Fight the Fire goes looking for a scene most reggae collections skip: Nigeria between 1986 and 1991, where artists were making digital reggae, conscious roots and dub of their own. The fourteen tracks run from Pat Biodun Fagbuaro's 'Guide Us Jah' and Johnny Keslar Udugba's 'Wadada' to Oby Onyioha's 'Raid Dem Jah' and Majah Kungu 'The Reggae Senator' with 'Wayo Nack in Town.'

Sides C and D lean further toward dub, with Mac Dessy Adult's 'Labrock Dub' and 'Drunken Driver (Dub)' from Boye Gbenro & Fibre, before Jan Blast, Alpha Kuffa and Bob Dazzy close things out. If your reggae shelf stops at Kingston, this is a very good place to keep going; there's a whole other coastline of it.

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Out May 15, 2026 on Soundway (cat# LP-SNDW-162).