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Thursday, February 26, 2009

It's Highlife Time

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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 ...
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Exploring Ga Cultural Highlife

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I often tell Priscilla that if I leave this mortal coil before her and she's hard up for cash, she can raffle off my record collection o...
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Friday, February 6, 2009

Forty Years of Xalam

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Remember back in the early '80s when King Sunny Adé hit the scene in America? Not only was he said to be the next Bob Marley, the record...
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Friday, January 30, 2009

Red Spots, Black Beats and Stargazers

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Reader/listener Malam Bala, in a recent comment, reminded me that this blog is long overdue for a posting of good old Ghana highlife music. ...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Anioma Sound Pt. 2

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As I wrote in "The Anioma Sound Pt. 1," the Anioma region comprises the Igbo-speaking areas of Delta State in Nigeria. The name...
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Sunday, January 25, 2009

The Anioma Sound Pt. 1

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The Igbo people live in all parts of Nigeria, but are the big majority of the population (over 90%) in five states: Imo, Anambra, Abia, Enu...
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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Spear of the Nation

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What a shame that South African saxophonist Dudu Pukwana died in exile on June 30, 1990, four years before the coming of democracy to his ho...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Gospel Highlife from "New Calabar"

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As you may have noticed, I've been writing quite a bit lately about the music of Nigeria's "Eastern Minorities." By this I...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

The Return of The King

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Note: This post was updated on December 30, 2008 and January 19, 2009. Get ready for another blast of raw, uncompromising Ethiopian funk, ...
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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Awijiri: Ijaw Music from the Niger River Delta

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The Ijaw people , who number close to ten million people, are the fourth largest nationality in Nigeria. They are a majority in Bayelsa Stat...
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