Many rains ago, in the early summer of 1965, something had happened on the West Coast of Africa that had never happened before. It's frenzy, like the persistent rhythm, loud and clear, of African Festival Drums, seized all negro souls North, East, South and West Africa. It rode on the wings of the dry Sahara wind and the African route Airlines into Europe. Flashy mohogany-skinned Air hostesses stepped into exotic night clubs of Europe with a song on their lips and this entrancing dance step to go with it. Enchanted, every white boy and girl asked with a glint in their eyes, "What is this new song that you sing, and this new dance that you dance?" From London to Lusaka, across Europe, East and West, the inquirers always got the same answers: "...the song is JOROMI and the dance we do is Akwete!" Modern highlife.....the Creator is Sir Victor Uwaifo.
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