Highlife is the sound Ghana gave the world, a blend of guitar bands, brass and Akan melody that has soundtracked weddings, funerals and everything in between for the better part of a century. Long before Afrobeats, this was the music. These are the artists who defined it and kept it alive. Ebo Taylor Few musicians […]

Long before Sarkodie was selling out arenas rapping in Twi, a returnee from London named Reggie Rockstone stood on a stage in Accra and proved that a Ghanaian could rap in his own language and be taken seriously. What he called hiplife grew into one of the sharpest rap scenes on the continent. These are […]