Ginger Folorunso Johnson & His Afro-Cuban Band

Ginger Johnson and his African Messengers: African Party

by John Eyles
June 19, 2015

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 ...