[3] Reuben Koroma, the main writer on the album, was a professional musician in Sierra Leone, his band The Emperors regularly played around Freetown.

[4] In 1997 the violence of the Civil War forced Koroma to flee to neighboring Guinea where he lived in a UN refugee camps.

The tracks on the album were recorded over a number of years with the help of the crew of the documentary Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars.

[2][7] The album was produced by Chris Velan who was musical director for the film Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars.

sounds to the uneducated ear like classic Studio One reggae, a defiantly warm and good-humoured African throwback to the gorgeous harmony vocals and lilting backbeat of The Heptones, Burning Spear or Carlton and the Shores.

The track Kele Mani "is lively gumbe, animated by bottle and hand-drum percussion and an ancient-sounding acoustic guitar.