Editing Makossa (section)

==== Highlife ====
[[Highlife]] is a [[West Africa|West African]] [[popular music]] whose origins lay in [[Sierra Leone]], then [[Ghana]] and finally in Nigeria in the 1920s.<ref name="l'Harmattan" /> It is a fusion of Western sounds and traditional musics. Highlife touches a multitude of styles and diverse combinations of instruments that correspond to emergent [[Social class|social classes]] as well as local traditions. The term "highlife", is revealing of the new urban culture created by [[colonialism]].<ref name="l'Harmattan" />

In 1930, distinct varieties existed along the West African coast.<ref name="l'Harmattan" /> Two major styles emerged: the dance [[orchestra]] with [[Brass instrument|brass instruments]] as well as other [[Western musical instruments|Western instruments]]; and groups more popular with dominant [[guitar]] and some musicians. It is this second style that influenced makossa as far as guitaristic texture and [[harmonic structure]].<ref name="l'Harmattan" />