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Bokoor Band

Bokoor Band has been played on NTS in shows including Light in the Attic, featured first on 1 September 2023. Songs played include Onukpa Shawarpo.

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…

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
Onukpa Shawarpo
Bokoor Band
Evolver, DMI, Kona Records2002
Onukpa Shawarpo
Bokoor BandEvolver, DMI, Kona Records2002
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