Highlife
Ghana's century-old dance band sound
Bophelo bjo bo phagamego ke mmino wa go tantsha wa Afrika Bodikela wo o ilego wa thoma kua Ghana mathomong a lekgolo la bo - masome - pedi la nywaga, wo o bego o tlatša meetlo ya ma - thabile le ya morethetho go diletšo tša ka Bodikela tša go tantsha. E ile ya ba o mongwe wa mmino o tumilego wa motheo wa tikologong gomme ya bopa bogolo bja seo se ilego sa latela.
Origin & history
Highlife developed in coastal Ghana in the early 1900s, as brass-band and dance-band instrumentation met local Akan musical traditions.
It spread to Nigeria and across West Africa through the mid-century, and its guitar styles and horn arrangements run underneath a great deal of later West African popular music, Afrobeats included.
Bo - rabokgabo Bao ba Nago le Bokgoni
Molaodi wa sehlopha sa mmino wa lešata gantši o be a bitša kgoši ya bophelo bjo bo phagamego, e lego selo sa bohlokwa mehleng ya yona ya go tantsha.
Moo e dulago gona
Dipotšišo le Dikarabo
What is highlife?+
Highlife is a West African dance music that began in Ghana in the early twentieth century, combining Akan musical traditions with Western dance-band instruments.
Where did highlife originate?+
In coastal Ghana, spreading from there to Nigeria and across West Africa.
How old is highlife?+
It dates to the early 1900s, which makes it one of the oldest continuously played popular music genres in West Africa.