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by John Eyles
The release of the compilation album Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66 (Soundway Records, 2015) threw light on the often-neglected role that the London scene of the fifties and sixties played in the development of Highlife and Afrobeat music, during a time before the term World Music" had been coined. Among a plethora of fine African ensembles, that album featured some seminal tracks by future superstar Fela Kuti who was resident in ...
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