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

Dr. Victor Abimbola Olaiya, known as the "Evil Genius" of Nigerian Highlife music, passed away Wednesday, February 12, at the...

A while back I made a few posts devoted to to music from Anioma , or the Igbo-speaking region of Delta State in Nigeria, immediately t...

We return once again to the Niger River Delta , and some more Ijaw-language highlife music in the style known as awijiri . The rather...

Back in the early days of online file-sharing, the 1973 album Destruction (Orbitone OT 005) by the Nigerian group the Nkengas achieve...

About 20 years ago my wife Priscilla brought back from Nigeria about 40 albums of Ijaw (Izon)-language highlife music, or  Awigiri , ...

Some time ago I devoted a post to music from the Efik and Ibibio peoples of southeastern Nigeria. For some reasoin I overlooked today...

A while back I did a post devoted to awigiri , the highlife music of the Ijaw (Izon) people of the Niger Delta. I have quite a few LPs ...

As more evidence that the collectors' market for used African recordings has entered Dutch Tulip Mania territory, I present the f...

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

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 ...

Augustin Kouassi is an Ivorian musician who's apparently been around the block a few times. Discogs lists a couple of LPs by his ban...

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

Who is Tayo Jimba? I have no idea. I do know that I enjoy this 1988 LP, Ise Aje (Leader LRCLS 65), a great deal. The label lists the...

Some years ago I discussed the former Benin Empire (not to be confused with the present-day "Republic of Benin"), its prem...

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...