African Expressive Culture Project
This project brings together a large and diverse set of NYU scholars who are active in both studying and producing African and African Diaspora art, music, film, and creative writing.
African Cities Documentary Series
NYU film professors Manthia Diawara and Awam Amkpa have been making a series of documentaries about African cities. Click here to see clips of the films Bamako Sigi Kan and Conakry Bas, by Manthia Diawara.
West African Highlife Music
NYU has been working with highlife musicians and scholars across Africa. Learn about the conference held in Accra in November 2004.
Kofi Ghanaba Archive
NYU is collaborating to create a public archive of music, papers and other materials belonging to Kofi Ghanaba, a seminal figure in Highlife music and in World Jazz.
BAPMAF
NYU is proud to work with John Collins and the Bokoor African Popular Music Archive Foundation (BAPMAF) on this page about Ghanaian Highlife Music.