Highlife

Highlife is a musical style that originated in Ghana and Sierra Leone in the early 1920s. Its name is a reference to a European style of dressing-up for an evening of dancing. The musical style draws from local dance rhythms and traditional African music, further brought to life with jazz and swing influences. In its early years, highlife was known by a variety of local names and seldom performed outside Ghana. It was difficult to define exactly what highlife was,...