Title:Highlife Giants: West African Dance Band Pioneers
Author: John Collins
Publisher: Cassava Republic Press
Number of pages: 320
Year of publication: 2016
Category: Music
The West African phenomenon, Highlife music, is many things to many people. To some, it is a colonial legacy. To others, it is an abiding aesthetic. Yet to some, it is dance music for wiggling derrières, perhaps the finest that came out of West Africa in the period spanning about twenty-five years on both sides of colonial independence. More…