[2] The album's poetic lyrics were strongly influenced by John Berger's A Seventh Man as well as Pablo Neruda and Jean-Paul Sartre.
The album's lead single, "Impi", with its pointedly political lyrics about a defeat of the colonial British army by the Zulus at the Battle of Isandlwana, was banned by South African radio but became an underground hit.
[4] The group disbanded in 1985 when Mchunu moved back to the farm where he was born in Natal to take care of his family.
[5] It did not receive the critical acclaim of early Juluka albums like Universal Men, African Litany, Work for All and Scatterlings.
The styles incorporated into Juluka's music are maskanda and mbaqanga, both of which are native to South Africa, and western folk and rock.
[7] The band accomplished this through sophisticated blendings of musical elements that evoked 'Western' and Zulu culture in their songs' harmonies, rhythms, forms and more.