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| | Reggae Artists Ismael Isaac Black System African Reggae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | That, he recalls, was when "reggae became, de facto, a genre of Africa Music", propelled mainly by another son of Treichville, an elder fellow named Seydou Koné, who called himself Alpha Blondy. |
 | | Hearing Alpha Blondy sing original reggae songs in the Dioula language (one of the five that Issiaka speaks), he made up his mind to be a reggae singer himself. |
 | | Singing in Mandinka, Malenké, Bambara, Dioula, and French, Isaac has written songs that address the citizens of today's teeming African cities, reminding the that traditional values such as community, hospitality and human dignity need not be sacrificed to modernity. |
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