Highlife music enters a new century with a rising generation of artists

Highlife music enters a new century with a rising generation of artists

Highlife, the West African genre widely regarded as a foundational sound in modern African popular music, is experiencing a renewed wave of interest as it marks its centenary. Born in the early twentieth century in the port cities of Ghana, the style fused European colonial brass traditions with local rhythms, eventually becoming the soundtrack of […]

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