It's a traditional dance performed all year long during festivals, religious celebrations and other ceremonies.

This vaudou dance is performed during supplication ceremonies to thank the God of the Earth and keep epidemic diseases away.
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Style musical and urban dance born in Ghana in the early 20th century. High-life name insinuates this music was played and appreciated in open air night-clubs of the high-society. High-life uses rhythmic structures of the traditional Akan music with occidental instruments (saxo, trompette, piano, trombone, violons...). High-life's popularity a gagné le Nigeria, then Liberia, Gambia, etc
Musics to dance High-life : E.T. Mensah, Ebo Taylor, Fela Kuti (at his beginning with his band Koola ... read next