Bokoor Band's lyrics & chords

This piquant selection of highlife, afrobeat, and afro-rock from the 70s and early 80s in Ghana puts a personal spin on the history and lore of the legendary Bokoor Recording Studio. Ten years before there was a studio, there was a band, the Bokoor Band, founded in 1971 by a twenty-something British émigré, John Collins, and his Ghanaian guitarist friend, Robert Beckley. Collins had come to Ghana in 1952 when his father began teaching philosophy at the University of Ghana. Later on, in the 80s and 90s, Collins would transform his father’...read more