highlife (ghana)

ghana - west africa - popualation 23 million - borders the ivory coast, togo and burkina faso
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songlines had this to say about their unique home-grown music style
the exuberant rhythms of highlife began among the ashanti people in ghana
but swiftly spread throughout sierra leone and nigeria
by ghana's independence in 1957 the original traditional-based style
had diversified into sophisticated dance bands led by the likes of e t mensah and king bruce
and vibrant electric guitar combos such as a b crentsil's sweet talks
doing a search on youtube threw up a number of hits for ghana highlife
but interestingly most of these also had reference to hiplife
so it seems like in the rest of the world
hip-hop (rap) is morphing with the local popular music
to produce a style with a vein of international recognition
specifically in this case hiplife with rap-style vocals and african dance music
there were quite a few examples of this on display
and not many original highlife clips that were not just slideshows
so i went for the following clip
seems to be mostly authentic highlife as best i can tell
but with the obvious influences
(17 of 50)