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Loving the Highlife

By G. Pascal Zachary

Sitting in an air-conditioned music studio, the afternoon heat of this African capital seems a universe away. From his very seat, next to a soundboard, Faisal Helwani has recorded some of the legends of Ghanaian music: “highlife” bands and traditional singers who helped the country gain a reputation, by the mid-’60s, as the center of African music. The highlife sound originated… return to article

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