
"The story of West African Highlife is partly the story of West African independence itself. From Highlife's early roots in church music, sea shanties, and military brass bands to the orchestra podiums, backstreet nightclubs and concert halls of Lagos, Accra, Benin City, Freetown and elsewhere, Highlife charted the growing confidence of a proud and gifted people casting off the shackles of empire: a people truly ready to live the highlife." -from the liner notes for Highlife Time So as I was saying on [...]