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Article: A bountiful feast: Nigerian music.
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- African Business
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Lagos All-Routes & Chop-Up
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
Various Artists
Honest Jon's Records
Cat: HJRCD15 + 17
These two albums, compiled and released by a small, UK-based, independent label, are a seminal collection of Nigerian highlife, juju, apala and fuji popular music styles. In Nigerian pidgin English, 'chop-up' is appropriately enough a 'bountiful feast', while the meaning of 'All-Routes' is clear enough.
The bulk of the music on these two discs falls within the style known as highlife dance music native to Anglophone West Africa. The roots of highlife were in the Gold Coast, colonial-era Ghana, and its early ...
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