Music
Fatai Rolling Dollar: the palm-wine guitarist who found fame again in his eighties
Fatai Rolling Dollar played palm-wine and highlife guitar in Lagos from the 1950s. After decades out of the…
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Music
S.E. Rogie: the Sierra Leone tailor whose palm wine guitar reached the world
S.E. Rogie, born in 1926 in Sierra Leone, was a self-taught guitarist who ran a tailor's shop before…
Arts + Culture
A laboratory scientist who became the king of palm wine guitar: Koo Nimo
Koo Nimo, born Kwabena Boa-Amponsem on 3 October 1934 in Foase in the Ashanti Region, is the leading…
Arts + Culture
“Yaa Amponsah” was recorded in London in 1928. Its guitar pattern became the backbone of Ghanaian highlife
In 1928, Kwame Asare, also known as Jacob Sam, recorded "Yaa Amponsah" in London with Sam's Trio. The…