Free & open to all: Goethe-Institut Ghana

We are bringing together DJs, journalists, musicians and scholars to discuss, through a trilocal lens, how the genre of Highlife music became popular music culture in the 1950s and still matters as a medium of keeping culture alive. We have put together a panel that will explore a fresh perspective and alternative ways of looking at Highlife music through gender, space and time. At the heart of it all is Dr. Markus Coester’s Highlife Unbound, a new book that ties these threads together.

Highlife Unbound is the lasts book by Dr. Markus Coerster and unfolds the trilocal and transnational history of Highlife, Anglophone West Africa’s first modern popular music. It introduces Highlife as a travelling cultural practice and trilocal community by investigating the interrelatedness of Highlife-making in the Gold Coast/Ghana, Nigeria, and England between 1950 and 1967, the time when Highlife became modern popular music culture.

At the heart of the evening is Dr. Markus Coester’s new book, Highlife Unbound—a groundbreaking look at the trilocal and transnational history of Highlife across Ghana, Nigeria, and England between 1950–1967.

And the night doesn’t stop there… After the conversation, the stage comes alive with performances from:

The New Ramblers Band

Rama Blak

Orkore & Her Koremba Band

Expect Highlife classics, original works, and a celebration of the genre’s timeless groove.

Come for the conversation, stay for the music. Highlife lives on—don’t miss it!

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