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…
guitar band highlife
Arts + Culture
E.K. Nyame and the Akan Trio: the man who sang highlife in Twi on the concert party stage
E.K. Nyame (1927 to 1977), from Kwahu, founded the Akan Trio concert party in 1952, combining guitar band…