Notes:

Highlife Name given to any West African popular music

Primarily an Anglophone music - territories of former British West Africa Sierra Leonne, Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, (French speaking Benin and Togo )

High Life is a synergetic product by which it is a music developed out of local and foreign influences but is greater than the sum of each of those influences.

Roots in Sierra Leone

• Indigenous rhythms of osibisaba (Fante), ashiko (Sierra Leone), dagomba (Liberian guitar style). and gombe (from Sierre Leone via Jamaican Maroons
• European Foxtrots, waltzes and polkas
• Caribbean kaiso
• Using European and African Instruments
• The Army Concert Party
• Kru-Sailors brought - Harmonica, Button Accordian and Guitar.
• Fusion of the Old World and the New World.