Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism, by Richard M. Shain.

Baobab did not merely imitate Afro-Cuban music, they created an entirely new style out of it, and they were masterful songwriters. (Where is the evidence for this?) I witnessed Baobab's revival at first hand in Dakar in 2001 and recognize little in Shain's analysis. Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism, by Richard M. Shain. [Extracted from the article]