If you're in the market for sweet, smooth Ghana highlife music, Nana Tuffour always delivers! James Kwaku ("Nana") Tuf...

The Okukuseku International Band, led by Sammy Koffi, was a Ghanaian group that made its way to Nigeria in the '70s and built an ...

I posted four tracks from Pat Thomas's 1974 album False Lover (Gapophone GAPO 02) almost ten years ago . Recently a reader asked th...

Over the last few months I've been posting a disproportionate amount of sweet Ghana highlife from the '80s. I just happened t...

The genre known as "Burger Highlife" originated among Ghanaian musicians living in Germany in the early '80s. Lauded and...

The two stalwarts of Ghana highlife, Pat Thomas and Ebo Taylor, have both been experiencing career revivals lately, thanks to new re...

With their politically-charged version of traditional Ghanaian sounds, Dade Krama were a sensation in Britain back in the mid-1980s. K...

Ghanaian highlife superstar Alex Konadu, or "One Man Thousand," was the subject of a previous post here on Likembe , and the...

Last month I gave you A.B. Crentsil's great 1985 LP Toronto by Night , with a promise of more sophisticated sounds from the king of ...

I've been going through my record collection, pulling out and digitizing Ghanaian LPs that I got hold of back in the '80s whe...

I've been unable to find out much about Asare Bediako, who is responsible for today's offering, the very enjoyable Lovers Hi Li...

Ghana's highlife great Pat Thomas has been experiencing something of a career renaissance lately. 2015 saw the release of   Pat Tho...

Jerry Hansen, founder of Ghana's influential Ramblers International Dance Band, passed away in Accra Saturday, April 7th. He was 85...

Once again I'm forced to apologize for the infrequency of my posts lately. As usual, I have several projects in the hopper, but all kin...

The 1976 album Asaase Asa (Brobisco KBL 016) was a breakthrough hit for Alex Konadu, establishing him as Ghana's foremost exponent of ...

I didn't know what to expect when I posted a recording of Fela Sowande's African Suite a couple of weeks ago, but the reaction has ...

I'll be out of town for a week and don't expect to be able to blog, but I wanted to get something in, so this one's a quickie. I...

I've been on a Ghana kick lately, digging out a lot of semi-forgotten vinyl in my collection that I haven't listened to in years. I ...