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Ginger Johnson and His African Messengers

African Party (Deluxe Edition)

By Ginger Johnson and His African Messengers

Label: Innovative Collective/bbe Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Jool Omo; Adura; Witchdoctor; Ire; Talking Drum; Lord Morocco; A You Momma; Watusi; Alege; Hi Life; Witch Doctor (Afro Rock); Nawa.

Ginger Johnson and his African Messengers: African Party (Deluxe Edition)

by Tony Poole
January 28, 2025

George Folunsho Johnson (1916-1975) was born in Nigeria and earned the nickname Ginger due to his reddish hair and freckles. At 18, Ginger Johnson joined the Nigerian Navy, which took him around the world and exposed him to a variety of musical styles and percussion techniques. After World War II, he settled in London, where he ...

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 ...