 | Osibisaba (Fante), Ashiko (Sierra Leone), Dagomba (Liberian guitar style). and Gombe (from Sierra Leone via Jamaican Maroons |
| European Foxtrots, waltzes and polkas |
| Caribbean kaiso |
| European & African Instruments |
| Highlife = Synergetic Music | ||||||||
| Incorporates
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Notes:
Highlife Name given to any West African popular music
Primarily an Anglophone music - territories of former British West Africa Sierra Leonne, Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, (French speaking Benin and Togo )
High Life is a synergetic product by which it is a music developed out of local and foreign influences but is greater than the sum of each of those influences.
Roots in Sierra Leone
| Indigenous rhythms of osibisaba (Fante), ashiko (Sierra Leone), dagomba (Liberian guitar style). and gombe (from Sierre Leone via Jamaican Maroons |
| European Foxtrots, waltzes and polkas |
| Caribbean kaiso |
| Using European and African Instruments |
| The Army Concert Party |
| Kru-Sailors brought - Harmonica, Button Accordian and Guitar. |
| Fusion of the Old World and the New World. |