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 ...

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 ...

In Ghana, Highlife is more than a music genre — it is a way of life. From funerals and festivals to weddings, football matches and late-night gatherings, its melodies and rhythms shape how Ghanaians ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Daddy Lumba, the Ghanaian highlife singer frequently ranked as the West African nation's greatest musical artist, died Saturday, after suffering a "short illness", according to the artist ...

It is beyond unlikely that Ghanaian highlife-music legend Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, 78, is performing in San Diego next week only two months after Ghanaian highlife-music pioneer Ebo Taylor, 89, performed ...

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 ...