Why Highlife Never Died

Horn sections learned from palm-wine guitar, not conservatory textbooks — that is where the swing lives.

Accra bandleaders packed clubs so tight the floorboards sang back — no stage gap between player and crowd.

Sun Coast Press cut 78s that sold out before the ink dried — the label that launched a continent.

Future Afrobeat trails led back to Accra dancehalls and the bands that lit them up.