Arts + Culture
Guitar bands and dance bands: the two branches of Ghanaian highlife
Ghanaian highlife developed along two main paths: dance bands with horns that played for elites in ballrooms, and…
E.T. Mensah
Arts + Culture
The night Louis Armstrong jammed with the King of Highlife in Accra
In 1956, Louis Armstrong came to the Gold Coast on his African tour and ended up playing with…