Odo Anigyina: E.T. Mensah
This is from an album called E.T. Mensah Day by Day, Classic Highlife Recordings of the 1950’s and 1960’s. When I was in Ghana, I loved watching couples dance to highlife music. In what was a ballroom dance, they had this wonderful rhythm.
Highlife emerged in the 20’s and is considered a major influence on all subsequent African Music. I can still remember sitting in a spot, an outside bar, listening and watching.
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March 29, 2011 at 11:54 am
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March 29, 2011 at 12:27 pm
I’m callin’ for MORE, when you see an opportunity. This is great. The rhythm is really infectious.
March 29, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Rick,
I’ll be glad to post more and probably will as I start to finalize my trip. If you’d like, I could e-mail you some downloads.
March 29, 2011 at 5:32 pm
It was watching a crowd of people doing the elegant highlife at the Hotel de Kingsway in Kumasi that sealed the deal and made me ask to be posted there. I felt I was in the cultural heart of the country.
Another subject: does the gist of today’s post (public latrines in Africa) mean you watched that great video I sent you made by current PCVs?
March 29, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Ralph,
Kumasi was the way station for me on the way to and from Bolga to Accra, but I also saw the elegant highlife in Bolga at the Hotel d’Bull.
Yup, I loved that video!!
March 29, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Kat
I never made the connection before, but it’s obvious.
Do you know “Awesome Tapes from Africa”? You should
http://awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com/
March 30, 2011 at 10:53 am
J,
No, I didn’t and thanks-it’s now bookmarked!!