As modern sounds rise and fall, Highlife remains woven into daily life — not as nostalgia, but as a living cultural heartbeat ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Reporting on Africa, its diaspora, and hip-hop's class acts today. While his contemporaries chased Afrobeats, Flavour chose to ...

Rapper Phyno has said that highlife genre of music moulded him as an entertainer. Phyno made this revelation during a recent podcast. The Enugu-born star said he was raised in a neighbourhood where ...

Ghanaian musician Rapp Fada has made a passionate call for the preservation and promotion of Highlife music, describing it as the true identity and heartbeat of Ghanaian culture. Speaking in a recent ...

UNESCO announced the decision on December 10, describing Highlife as a "monumental expression of Ghana's musical genius, culture, and global influence", honouring generations who have preserved and ...

On a humid Tuesday night in Accra, Zen Garden is alive with sound, movement and memory as Highlife melodies spill into the open air, drawing families, friends and office workers who sway long past ...

Introduction -- Popular music in Nigeria -- The social construction of Highlife music -- Historical development of Nigerian Highlife music -- Forms and styles of Nigerian Highlife music -- Nigerian ...

Highlife music, one of Ghana’s most treasured musical legacies, is gradually losing its presence in the Western Region, an area many regard as the root of the genre. This decline has sparked concern ...

Legendary highlife musician Godwin ‘Kabaka’ Opara has passed away at the age of 77. This was made known in a statement by Ammarachi Anyanwu, Chief Operating Officer of Derda Promotions. According to ...