[3][4] Mutabaruka supported the album with a North American tour that included shows with Speech.

[7] Sly and Robbie played on Melanin Man; Dennis Brown, Cocoa Tea, and Freddie McGregor sang on the album.

[13] The Washington Post opined that "the unimaginative, mechanical dancehall rhythms and dub echoes pander to all the worst musical stereotypes and Mutabaruka's verse is all strident polemics full of abstract nouns with none of the sensual imagery and fresh metaphor of such musical Caribbean poets as Bob Marley and Shinehead.

"[5] The Chicago Tribune admired the "squirmy licks, driving guitar and traditional Rastafarian chants" of "Beware".

[19] AllMusic wrote that most of the songs "continue his tradition of unrelenting, pro-Jamaican, pan-African political fare.