The origin of Hiplife: How rapping in Twi ‘blew people’s minds’

Hiplife is a music genre birthed in Ghana in the early 90s from a fusion of American hip-hop and Ghanaian highlife music.

It established itself as music with a truly African identity for a new generation of Ghanaians.

BBC News Africa spoke to some of the originators of the genre about how the sound came to take over West Africa.

You can watch the full documentary Hiplife Rewind here, external.

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