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Africa · Ghana · AFR-0034

Mame Wata (archival highlife recording)

Kwaa Mensah

Meet the recording

Kwaa Mensah's intimate guitar-centered music provides another route through palm-wine highlife. Exact session date is unverified; hear the performance without treating its upload year as its age.

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Listening access: Performance video · YouTube

Source access, licensing and verification details

Public provider page offering recording or preview; audio remains at original source; local playback not independently tested

Source credit: YourHighlifeMusic archival uploader; biography from Ghana Gramophone Records Museum

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