History of Highlife Music (Part 1) - Origins of Highlife Music

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In this video I discuss this history of Igbo Highlife music, and how the genre was formed. I discuss Cardinal Rex Lawson, the Ekumeku Resistance, Sacred music, Igbo spirituality, Odinani, Ogbanje, the Chi, How Ghana influenced Nigeria, and Ghanaian music became Nigerian Highlife. How nigerian highlife became Igbo highlife

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