Highlife Music In West Africa

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Highlife - Wikipedia Highlife is a music genre that originated in present-day Ghana early in the 20th century, during its history as a colony of the British Empire. It uses the melodic and main rhythmic structures of traditional Akan music, but is played with Western instruments. Highlife in West Africa Music In Africa Mensah toured extensively across West Africa, going to Dahomey (present-day Republic of Benin), Cameroon, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Togo, establishing his highlife as the most stylishly modern of African sounds, an African music of the future, emblematic of a continent that was steadily marching towards independence from colonialism. Highlife African music Britannica.com Highlife: Highlife, type of West African popular music and dance that originated in Ghana in the late 19th century, later spread to western Nigeria, and flourished in both countries in the 1950s. The earliest form of highlife was performed primarily by brass bands along the Ghanaian coast. By the early 20th