Arts + Culture
The atumpan: how Asante’s talking drums speak Twi
The atumpan are a pair of Asante talking drums, one higher and one lower in pitch, that reproduce…
ghanaian music
Music
“Kyenkyen Bi Adi M’awu” and the Cubano Fiestas: the highlife of Alhaji K. Frimpong
Alhaji K. Frimpong (1939 to 2005), born in Ofoase in the Ashanti Region, was a Ghanaian highlife singer…
Arts + Culture
Highlife, lovers rock and soukous in one voice: Kojo Antwi, Ghana’s Mr Music Man
Kojo Antwi, born Julius Kojo Antwi in Accra on 24 November 1959 and raised in Darkuman, released his…
Arts + Culture
“Ebi Te Yie” was a song about animals in 1967. Ghanaians heard it as a warning about power
Nana Kwame Ampadu and the African Brothers Band released "Ebi Te Yie" in 1967, a highlife song built…
Arts + Culture
Afrobeat or Afrobeats? One letter separates Fela’s revolution from Burna Boy’s stadium tours
Afrobeat is the style Fela Kuti and Tony Allen built in Lagos in the late 1960s and 1970s.…
News
Ghanaian Producers Bring UK Club Flair to Summer with Sizzling ‘Popsicle
Ghanaian producers bring UK club flair to summer with their sizzling single Popsicle, a refreshing blend of Afrobeats…