Kwaa Mensah was born in Lagos Nigeria Archives - African Research Consult https://african-research.com/tag/kwaa-mensah-was-born-in-lagos-nigeria/ Your #1 Educational center Fri, 08 May 2020 07:15:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://i0.wp.com/african-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-AREC.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Kwaa Mensah was born in Lagos Nigeria Archives - African Research Consult https://african-research.com/tag/kwaa-mensah-was-born-in-lagos-nigeria/ 32 32 194781668 Legends of Ghanaian Highlife Music: Kwaa Mensah (1920-1991) https://african-research.com/research/music/legends-of-ghanaian-highlife-music-kwaa-mensah-1920-1991/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=legends-of-ghanaian-highlife-music-kwaa-mensah-1920-1991 https://african-research.com/research/music/legends-of-ghanaian-highlife-music-kwaa-mensah-1920-1991/#respond Thu, 07 May 2020 18:20:55 +0000 http://african-research.com/?p=1091 Kwaa Mensah was born in Lagos (Nigeria) in September, 1920. He was brought up in Cape Coast. His uncle was the first highlife guitarist in Ghana, Jacob Sam, “Sam” or Kwame Asare, a goldsmith from Cape Coast. Sam taught Kwaa the guitar, and during the 1930’s, Kwaa played in a Cape-Coast adaha band, adaha being [...]

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