Spent the morning in a record shop in Osu where the owner played me a 1974 highlife side I had never heard. Writing about it this week.
Accra, Ghana
Kojo Ansah
@kojo-ansah
Culture writer tracing Ghana's sound from highlife to Afrobeats. Collector of old dance-band records and unsettled arguments about food.
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Reminder that the best guitar line in any highlife song is usually the one under the vocal, not the solo.
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