A brief guide to hiplife – Pan African Music

Three men wearing matching sports-themed outfits and hats are posed together, each with one arm around another's shoulder. The names "Prodigal," "Promptzy," and "Lazzy" are visible on their shirts, embodying the unity often celebrated in hiplife and Pan African Music cultures.

PAM takes you back to when Ghanaians were living the hiplife, a 1990s musical and generational craze which placed hip-hop verses in-between highlife guitar loops.

If there is one country in Anglophone West Africa capable of challenging the undeniable Nigerian hegemony over contemporary pop music, it is probably Ghana. A relatively small territory of around 30 million inhabitants, the country has for decades been a continental hotspot for the most exciting genres. Around 2010, Ghanaian music was taking the world by storm with azonto, and in…