We really must meet Ghanaian highlife music, arollicking dance music arose in the coastal towns of Ghana in the 1920s.
As it developed, Ghanaian highlife fused international genres like the rumba and big band jazz with rhythms and melodies of many West African countries to create an optimistic sound that really took hold in the hopeful ’50s and ’60s, as African nations were becoming independent. This documentary puts the focus on Ghana and Nigeria of the ’70s, when highlife was at West Africa’s social and political core.
