Great!

OP, thanks so much.

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WOW! WOW!! WOW!!! Fela Kuti High life music era just too fantamusickstic✊�✊�✊�✊�✊�

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7lTKdFz-lU

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franktolk:
What of Roy Chicago, Adeolu Akinsanya, oriental brothers, Sir Warrior,Bright Chimezie, E T Mensah , Baba Ambrose Campbell to name a few

I've posted E.T. Mensah's songs many times, but he's not in this list because he is not a Nigerian.

I'm going to post Oriental Brothers (and Sir Warrior) songs later (they are on my list).

The good old days



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrvmtlT_Iag

Oko Oko By Sally Young

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-uE1UPcIfNY

naptu2:
Aha! They have arrived. These are the people that will ask me for songs or artistes that have already been posted on the first page. That means that they did not come here to read or enjoy the thread, they simply came here to complain and they started complaining without even reading the posts.

Maybe Lugard was right about us blacks after all

sage:
http://www.leadershipnigeria.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28:the-vague-future-of-nigeria&catid=28:friday-column&Itemid=56

Lord Lugard, the former governor-general of Nigeria, in 1926, wrote his unfiltered thought about Nigerians. From his book, The Dual Mandates, come these excerpts: "In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person, lacking in self-control, discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewellery. His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals' placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the state he has reached.

"Through the ages, the African appears to have evolved no organised religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural. He lacks the power of organisation, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility - he will work hard with a less incentive than most races. He has the courage of the fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral virtue. In brief, the virtues and defects of his race -type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy. Perhaps, the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his lack of ability to visualize the future"

Guys lets discuss the thoughts of Lord Lugard. he had  a supremacist view obviously. But is he right in the way he describes Nigerians and Africans in general? How many of the issues that he raises are valid?

Letz get some responses

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naptu2:


Aha! They have arrived. These are the people that will ask me for songs or artistes that have already been posted on the first page. That means that they did not come here to read or enjoy the thread, they simply came here to complain and they started complaining without even reading the posts.

God bless you naptu2 for this. Please, I'm looking for a way to save this thread because I don't have enough data to listen now. Someone pls help.

anonimi:


Maybe Lugard was right about us blacks after all

Thread bookmarked!

Music for the soul. . . .

Fiscabally:
Just downloaded all via snaptube,
Thanks

How pls, do I need to download any app

Nice one @ Naptu.

OP, this is a wonderful thread. Thanks for the beautiful memories of my grandparents.

There's this song.... "Na my choice o o, Na my choice oo


Christy Essien Igbokwe would fit in here but she's Reggae

What about Nigeria go better by Veno Marioghe.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBrrkiCXYNo

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naptu2:
I'll be back with more later, but in the meantime you can also post more songs.

I only heard taxi driver from nelly uchendu.
Never know that wasn't the first.
Thanks.

I like it when you create threads like this.

kestolove95:
No FELA Nd you want me to like the post, u must be joking. Oga FELA until then the list is incomplete

This is HIGHLIFE MUSIC.
Know the difference.

That's how you fail exam.

quentin06:
What about Nigeria go better by Veno Marioghe.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBrrkiCXYNo

This is pop, not highlife.
Highlife is known with lots of guitar work.

Nigeria has different genres of music.

The guy just covered highlife music.

I wasn't going to post this song, because he was not a Nigerian, but someone asked for him, so I'll post it.

This tune was adapted to create various Nigerian songs, so you might be familiar with the melody.

naptu2:
E.T. Mensah: "All for you, Titi all for you".

Nigerian version: "Ba mi jo, ara e ba mi yo".

naptu2:
The king of highlife. The great E.T. Mensah of Ghana.

E.T. Mensah - All For You

naptu2:
I would give anything to listen to Benson Idonijie right now. He was an expert on the relationship between Dr Victor Olaiya of Nigeria and E.T. Mensah of Ghana. He knew all about their friendship, the quarrels, who did what first, etc.

naptu2:
I know that he is not a Nigerian, but this song was so popular in Nigeria that he might have as well been a Nigerian. I'm still searching for the Yoruba version of this song.


He did a joint album with Dr Victor Olaiya and if I remember correctly, there was some dispute over who wrote what track, but they reconciled before he died.

This is probably the most famous Ghanaian musician ever. He was a super legend.

(Listen to this song, I bet it"ll sound familiar to you. The melody has been adapted for many purposes in Nigeria).


E.T. Mensah - All For You (1950s).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rK3DIN3EuU

GOD bless you for this thread.

descarado:

This is pop, not highlife.
Highlife is known with lots of guitar work.

Nigeria has different genres of music.

The guy just covered highlife music.

The highlife you re talking about is a modified form of jazz and funk, it was pop music in those days.

Pop means popular music, so they re all pop , just the period in which they were popular, veno marioghe's music qualifies .

You were not even born when the so called highlife was popular why are you forming? Go and eat some indomie.

naptu2, given that I can only like each of your posts on this thread once, kuku take 150 likes here.

Excellent thread!!!