Music

By Dami Ajayi

• 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…