African Marketplace
by Dollar Brand
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African Marketplace is ranked 8th 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 10355 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 117.
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African Marketplace rankings summary
Overall rank: 42,396th | 1980s rank: 4,931st | 1980 rank: 480th Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 35/100 | 13 |
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 52 Music Albums of 1980 | 5/52 | 5 |
| 2026 | PurpleHazel | Top 41 Music Albums of 1979 | 4/41 | - |
| 2015 |  briggs54 | Top 76 Music Albums of 1979 | 34/76 | - |
| 2015 | briggs54 | Albums of the World: Africa | 45/69 | - |
| 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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| ! | 03/14/2024 00:30 | replacementlevel | 7,850 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/15/2022 12:21 | Ntax | 236 | 82/100 |
| ! | 07/17/2022 22:59 | Hyggevinyl | 4,482 | 72/100 |
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Taosjohn 03/01/2022 06:54 | #282068
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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