Ghana and Germany have a lot of cooperative relationships which has existed for a long time. One of the more profound aspects of this is manifested in the music collaboration – Highlife’s funky sub-genre, Borga Highlife. The was crafted and perfected in Germany in the ’70s and ’80s by Ghanaian musicians who had moved there. The name of the genre is a testament to the German city, Hamburg.  This creation of this sound resulted in ‘a cross-cultural fertilization between two nations and two different cultures bearing all the significant hallmarks of co-operation’. The beautiful thing was that it was led by independent creative minds; people from different cultures with different skill sets and backgrounds came together to exchange ideas and by so doing created a new and exciting sound with an instant appeal. In recent times, the collaboration has grown further, again led by