African Marketplace (studio album)
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Dollar Brand bestography
African Marketplace is ranked 7th best out of 35 albums by Abdullah Ibrahim on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Abdullah Ibrahim is Water From An Ancient Well which is ranked number 9830 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 121.
(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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African Marketplace track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
African Marketplace rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Hyggevinyl | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 34/100 | 13 |
| 2024 | Hyggevinyl | Top 49 Music Albums of 1980 | 5/49 | 5 |
| 2022 | PurpleHazel | Top 40 Music Albums of 1979 | 5/40 | - |
| 2015 |  briggs54 | Albums of the World: Africa | 45/69 | - |
| 2015 | briggs54 | Top 76 Music Albums of 1979 | 34/76 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 5 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 18 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 03/14/2024 00:30 | replacementlevel | 7,716 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/15/2022 12:21 | Ntax | 236 | 82/100 |
| ! | 07/17/2022 22:59 | Hyggevinyl | 4,187 | 72/100 |
| ! | 03/01/2022 06:40 | Taosjohn | 850 | 69/100 |
| ! | 03/02/2020 17:36 |  Hayden | 7,369 | 72/100 |
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A wonderful album, the sort that makes you more human, less animal with each listen. The best counterargument to racism and bigotry i know. I hear it as a tone poem about life in a western South African town; I hear the women chaffering in the marketplace, the children and the dogs, smell the food in the pots and the grasses at the edge of the clearing, and after 20 minutes or so I want to go there and live there, and seek my evolution among all these wonderful people.
That's about me, yes-- but that is also what Abdullah Ibrahim can do with a piano and 20-30 minutes.
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