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JOHN COLLINS RECORDING AT BOKOOR STUDIO 1983 ON INSTAGRAM
It is of the Ghanaian highlife guitarist Koo Nimo talking, me recording Sloopy Mike Gyamfi’s Adinkra highlife band in 1983 at my semi open-air mud-built 4-track Bokoor Recording Studio in Accra, and then a few seconds of Smart Nkansah’s Sunsum band playing at a club. This instagram snippet come from a longer 50 minute film that… Read more
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Kofi Ghanaba Archives and Afro-jazz 16 Feb 2020
Friday 14th 2020 went with Thomas and Becky to the New York University in Ghana program organised by it new Director Prof Frankie Edozien, honouring Kofi Ghanaba and launching the digitised version of his archives done 12 or so years ago by NYU . I spoke on a panel with Prof Kofi Anyidoho and and… Read more
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