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

Together with Barmani Mai Coge and Alhaji Maman Shata , Dan Maraya Jos was a leading exemplar of the traditional music of the Hausa p...

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

From the little I've been able to find out about him, Abel Yéplé of Ivory Coast has had a long career. I suspect he may have pass...

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

Kenya's Maroon Commandos have been featured here on Likembe a couple of times. In March I posted their LP Mwakarabishwa na Maroon...

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

I promised this one a while back , and here it is! Tanzanian/Kenyan superstars Les Wanyika give us another scinitillating slice of Swah...

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

We conclude our overview of DiscAfrique's Zimbabwe Hits compilations with Volume 3 of the series - Advance Kusugar! (DiscAfrique ...