Ghana’s diverse musical traditions helped give rise to highlife and, later, hiplife and contemporary Afrobeats. These examples connect E. T. Mensah’s independence-era classic “Ghana Freedom” with a modern collaboration by Sarkodie and Castro.
Ghana has many styles of traditional and modern music, due to its multiplicity of ethnic groups and its cosmopolitan geographic position in West Africa. The best known modern genre that originated in Ghana is Highlife.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia’s “Music of Ghana” article
E. T. Mensah’s independence-era “Ghana Freedom” is a landmark of classic Ghanaian highlife.
Sarkodie and Castro represent Ghana’s modern hiplife and Afrobeats-era popular music.