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The Rough Guide To HighlifeHighlife music conjures up images of African nightclubs, shiny dancefloors, champagne, fine clothes and the spirit of hope and expectation that marked the end of the colonial era. The heyday of highlife was in the 1960s and 1970s, and the name describes and defines the popular guitar led dance music of West Africa, primarily from Ghana and Nigeria. The Rough Guide To Highlife surveys this vibrant scene, featuring classic tracks of the era and the

He also uses his understanding of the kora to weave his melody and guitar lines together in seamless interplay

here dusted off

best known for his involvement with Quatre Etoiles and Kekele and widely acknowledged as one of Africa's best guitarists

Among the grasslands of the Sahel and the shifting dunes of the Sahara desert

Sam Mangwana

Femi Anikulapo-Kuti and the Positive Force

Known as 'a man of a thousand stories' and 'The Grand Old Man of Marrabenta'

began singing and playing guitar in a band called Farafina Lolo (Africa Star)

showing Off Broadway

When Farafina Lolo split up in the mid-1990s

Born of the Zulu experience of labour migrancy

'Think Africa' was recorded in Lagos in 2006 with Pidgin English lyrics concerning government corruption