Africa Speaks
by Santana
Santana bestography
Africa Speaks is ranked 22nd best out of 61 albums by Carlos Santana on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Carlos Santana is Abraxas which is ranked number 483 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,542.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Africa Speaks track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 01/06/2026 18:48 | brent13 | 1,940 | 68/100 | |
| 06/07/2025 15:51 | Invader666 | 2,622 | 65/100 | |
| 10/08/2024 17:31 | duelek | 1,826 | 76/100 | |
| 05/15/2024 03:24 | Skerns | 5,089 | 80/100 | |
| 07/21/2023 23:41 |  Fischman | 11,858 | 66/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.1/100, a mean average of 68.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.4.
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UofTBlues 08/04/2021 17:26 | #272252
It's not Speaking to me. Perhaps I should give it another listen.
I think it is a very good album from Santana, the combination of guitar with African sounds is awesome.
dihansse 10/09/2019 20:10 | #243593
Very rootsy album with contributions of many African guest singers but every track still has one of these typical Santana guitar parts. Not his best album bit still very enjoyable.
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