ETHNOMUS 25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Twi, Fela Kuti, African Diaspora
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Gold coast: portuguese, dutch, swedish, german, and british colonies: wasn"t the colony of any one country b/c of gold. 1824-1901: anglo-ashanti wars: ashanti empire was further inland, on coast: number of non-ashanti people. Looked to british empire for protection against ashanti: ashanti sometime won against british, ashanti was trying to gain control of part of land that was not theirs, not trying to keep. 1957: independence from uk, kwame nkrumah becomes first prime minister: process began 10 yrs earlier, gold exports! 1966-1992: lead by many dictators: not a stable country. Hiplife = hip hop + highlife: hip hop derived from jamaica. Simigwa do : ambiguity of lyrics => connects to more groups of people. Spent time in nyc and london: the artists he encountered greatly influenced his later work, working in hip hop and rap scenes, and took what he learned back to ghana.
