NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Jah Shaka on 20 April 2023. Jah Shaka has been played on NTS over 180 times, featured on 152 episodes and was first played on 20 October 2012.

Jah Shaka (born in Jamaica in 1948; died 12 April 2023), aka the Zulu Warrior, was a Jamaican reggae/dub sound system operator who ran a south-east London-based, roots reggae Jamaican sound system since the early 1970s. His name is an amalgamation of the Rastafarian term for God and that of the Zulu king Shaka Zulu.

One of the most important roots reggae and dub artists, he was a composer,…