At the beginning of the 20th century and while the port cities of the west coast of Africa were prospering, a new indigenous musical style emerged from the salt waters: music “palm wine”. Which at the beginning was only music to liven up the evenings in the shady dock bars where sailors, dockers and other proletarians gathered around glasses of palm wine – palm wine, a milky, sweet alcoholic beverage – has transformed into a transnational phenomenon, giving rise to local genres throughout Africa…
