Guitar Band Highlife III

Guitar Band Highlife III

• 1970s/80s Ghanian economy in decline
  • Atakora Manu Sound Engineers
  • Ekow Redding’s Katakumbey
  • Sammy Koffi and Water Proof’s Okukuseku Dance Band
  • Alex Konandu “One Man Thousand”

Notes:

1970s/80s

• Ghanian economy in decline musician’s move to Nigeria, UK and Germany
• Atakora Manu Sound Engineers
• Ekow Redding’s Katakumbey
• Sammy Koffi and Water Proof’s Okukuseku Dance Band
  • Moved to Nigeria had major success, now back in Ghana
• Jewel Ackah - Highlife Vocalist
• Charles Kofi Mann
  • Single guitar backed by percussion
• Alex Konandu
  • “One Man Thousand”
  • Shuffling highlife style
  • Stayed in Ghana when other left for the UK and Germany