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	AFRICA HOUSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kofi Ghanaba, also known as Guy Warren, is a Ghanaian drummer with a prodigious career that has had enormous influence on many artists around the world, including key American jazz musicians.
		NYU is proud to be working with Kofi Ghanaba to develop an archive of his collection of music, papers and recordings in his residence in Ghana.
		Kofi Ghanaba was the first African drummer to play with jazz musicians in America, first coming here during World War II as part of war intelligence effort.
	www.nyu.edu /africahouse/news_library_donation.html (396 words)

	DVD Booty - Kofi Ghanaba Movies
		Archive Of Kofi Ghanaba Materials Supported By NYU in Ghana.
		Guy Warren, the Ghanaian drummer also known as Kofi Ghanaba, is a unique and radical figure in Afri...
		Warren, aka Kofi Ghanaba, is a unique and radical figure in African music.
	www.dvdbooty.com /stars/kofi-ghanaba (70 words)

	News -- Famous drummer, Babatunde Olatunji, dies in the U.S.
		But sad enough, as popular as Olatunji was abroad, he was little known at home, obviously because he had stayed out too long to be easily recalled in the pantheon of Nigerian or African musicians.
		His contemporary in the early days of his migration abroad, the Ghanaian, Guy Warren, who later changed his name to Kofi Ghanaba, thinks that Olatunji had been one of the negative influences in the positive projection of African culture.
		In an interview with The Guardian in 1997 in Cape Coast Ghana, Ghanaba who had returned to Africa in anger in the 60s after two decades in the US, stated that Olatunji was deliberately played up by the Western culture media as a way of showing that "African artistes are not intellectuals.
	odili.net /news/source/2003/apr/9/22.html (748 words)

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		Born in Ghana in West Africa, Guy Warren, who is also known as Kofi Ghanaba, was a jazz drumset player and palyer of traditional Ghanaian percussion.
		Warren (or Kofi Ghanaba as he goes by now) lays two of these large drums on their sides and attahces foot pedals.
		He was also known to arrange jam sessions with traditional Yoruba drummers from Nigeria in which such African-jazz inspired improvisation was a highlight.
	guywarren-kofighanaba.freeservers.com (629 words)

	Welcome to the Republic of Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Professor Emeritus J. Nketia and the Divine Drummer Kofi Ghanaba were on Saturday honoured by the National Theatre for their immense contribution to the development of arts in the country.
		The two, described as living legends, were presented with a shield, flower and special silver portrayed frame and a high profile musical performance dubbed the "Living Legends," to showcase their art works.
		Accepting the award, Divine Drummer Kofi Ghanaba dedicated the honour to four personalities he called pillars of his life, which included Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings, whilst Prof Nketia dedicated his to the many choral groups who had served as mediums of transmitting his music and creative works to the larger audience.
	www.ghana.gov.gh /living/article.php?id=0000001618 (420 words)

	akwaaba!
		Kofi, the guy in the office, took us himself in a green canoe, poling at first through a canal and then paddling through wetlands, marsh, and jungle to the lake.
		Medie is out in the middle of near-nowhere, with muddy roads (that put me in mind of that children’s book where they all get out and push, with the chicken and the goat and all the kids...nevermind) and wide-leafed palms and chickens, always chickens.
		We all sat in a verandah under a tent in Ghanaba’s backyard while various people stood up to speak, and while the Winneba Youth Choir performed, and then the man himself took the stage.
	obruni.livejournal.com (16281 words)

	Every Generation online
		Jazz musician, broadcaster, journalist and author, Ghanaba was famous for his African talking drums interpretation of the Halelujah Chorus by Beethoven and his Drum Concerto 'Third Phase', based on Beethoven's 5th Symphony.
		He was one of the participants of A Historical Concert in Dedication of Africa's contribution to the World, held in March 1986 at the Royal Albert Hall in London as part of a series of concerts that took place that year.
		Max Roach, internationally acclaimed percussionist and composer also came to London to perform with Ghanaba in the concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
	www.everygeneration.co.uk /BHM_gallery.htm (613 words)

	African Music Archive
		In Europe he is associated with a small but influential movement involving such great players as Kofi Ghanaba (Guy Warren) and others, which introduced basic African rhythmic patterns into modern drumming as integral elements of style rather than as exotic features.
		Prior to the mid-fifties which saw the emergence of Art Blakey as a truly individual force in Jazz Drumming, the inclusion of real African rhythmic patterns in the vocabulary of modern drumming accompaniment for popular forms of musical expression was limited to a glamorous rather than influential role.
		Today Bayo Martins who can be described as nothing less than a spiritual brother of Kofi Ghanaba has embarked upon a far-reaching and unique projection of rhythm as the basis for a histrionic performing concept.
	ntama.uni-mainz.de /ama/content/view/45/29/1/0 (386 words)

	retroafric.com
		A leading member of the Tempos highlife band, he is credited with introducing African percussion into American jazz in the 1950s, from the large fomtomfrom drums to talking ‘squeeze’ drums, shakers and other idiophones.
		As the master drummer Max Roach later remarked: "Ghanaba was so far ahead of what we were all doing, that none of us understood what he was saying – that in order for African-American music to be stronger, it must cross-fertilize with its African origins...
		By the end of the 1960s, Warren had changed his name to Kofi Ghanaba, meaning ‘son of Ghana’.
	www.retroafric.com /html/news_10.html (462 words)

	Scientific African - The BAPMAF Highlife Institute and Highlife Photo Exibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In February 1996 BAPMAF and the German Goethe Institute in Accra (under its then Director Sabine Hentzch) organised a Highlife Month that included seminars and films on highlife, performances (Ankobra, Grassroots, Mau Mau Musiki and drummer Kofi Ghanaba) - with the central focus being the Golden Years of Highlife Music Photographic Exhibition.
		Mensah Executives), the Ghana Record Producers Union (Dick Essilfie-Bondzie and Kojo Donkoh Executives) and the African Heritage Library (Kofi Ghanaba, Director).
		The Afro-jazz of Kofi Ghanaba (Guy Warren), the Afro-beat of Nigeria's Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Osibisa's Afro-rock and the current wave of "Burgher" Highlife and Hiplife.
	www.scientific-african.org /scholars/jcollins/files/info65 (758 words)

	Triocolor - Colours Of Ghana- ACT9285-2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Likewise a three-member group, African Sound Project employs saxophones, flutes, kalimbas, shells, and horns, along with drums and self-made instruments in their play..
		Another encounter Triocolor experienced can be said to have been formative, namely their meeting with 77 year old Kofi Ghanaba.
		Ghanaba, "The Divine Drummer", cuts down holy trees for the wood with which to make sanctified drums, lives in the bush where he runs a museum, and with his unique drum talk is able to put himself and his listeners into a trance.
	www.actmusic.com /act9285.htm (511 words)

	Club Ghana - News and Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The most famous was the Tempos band, led by the Ga trumpeter ET Mensah, and which incorporated Afro-Cuban percussion played by the band's drummer Guy Warren, now known as Kofi Ghanaba.
		It was the Tempos' brilliant fusion style that made such an impact on Nigeria in 1950 and encouraged the likes of Bobby Benson, Victor Olaiya and Rex Lawson to form their own Yoruba and Ibo highlife dance bands.
		During the 1970s when Ghana's economy declined, eastern Nigeria became an important and lucrative destination for highlife musicians.
	www.clubgh.com /showart.asp?art=315&cat=1 (735 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Divine Drummer [Import]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Warren (now called Ghanaba) uses a mix of African drums (from the Ashanti, Dogomba, and Ga peoples of Ghana) arranged and played like a jazz drumset.
		Ghanaian drummer Guy Warren (aka Kofi Ghanaba) is one of the more elusive figures in the jazz world, as well as the African pop scene.
		He did a lot of work with a lot of great African bands in the '40s and '50s, founding the Tempos band that later made E.T. Mensah famous, and later got into the hard bop and free jazz scenes of the 1960s, gigging with some of the greats of the style.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000067VNQ (377 words)

	Guy Warren (Kofi Ghanaba) / cdRoots
		They are music, not backing, not rhythm track, but the starting point for a spiritual and musical feast, from a man not afraid to be himself.
		On one track Warren preempts scratching by scat vocalising in a stop-start technique that is more than just a beat generation period piece, while the deconstructed swing music has a contemporary edge.
		He played with Lester Young and the Sarah Vaughan Trio in the Birdland All-Stars and recorded several albums in the States which sold millions of copies.
	www.cdroots.com /st-guywarren.html (533 words)

	Panji, A Man Of Many Parts In The Ghanaian Music Industry - Printer Friendly Page - Industry News - GhanaMusic.com
		Panji has concluded that music is the easiest way for people to understand him thus doing music.
		Works of Winneba Youth Choir, Freddie Funkstone, Reggie Rockstone, Batman, Paapa, Kofi Ghanaba, Kwaadee, Kweku T, Abeiku, Malaika, Kwabena Bodofuo, Dede (Nigeria), Baba Fruyo, Kaiser Jones, Brass Bands, hiplife artistes, funk and even some traditional artistes have passed through Pidgen Music.
		For his thoughts about the Ghanaian music industry, he rather wants better managers to record and help artistes to achieve their potentials.
	www.ghanamusic.com /html/modules/news/print.php?storyid=225 (665 words)

	AFRICA HOUSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The NYU in Ghana program was launched in Fall 2004, and has hosted 90 students since then, making it one of the largest study abroad programs in Ghana.
		Distinguished local academics who have taught at NYU in Ghana include professors Kofi Anyidoho, Kofi Awoonor and John Collins.
		Formal launching of the African Heritage Library, a joint project of Kofi Ghanaba and NYU.
	128.122.108.74 /africahouse/news_inauguration.html (408 words)

	Music in Ghana :::: [www.musicinghana.com] Highlife, Hip Life, Hip Dia, Rag Life, Reggie Rockstone, Obour, Tic Tac ....
		The 1960 and 70's jazz groove of gems like Louis Amstrong, Billy Stray Horn, Miles Davies and Billie Holiday will be revisited at Mojo Lounge.
		Local greats and others like Guy Warren now Kofi Ghanaba, Joe Kelly, Tommy Grippman, George Lee, Max Armah, Art Bonney are also on Amanda's list.
		Amanda is so much in love with music and loves to entertain and see people, especially jazz fans enjoying jazz music and accepting it as part of their lifestyle.
	www.musicinghana.com /migsite/main/read_news.php?cid=417 (381 words)

	Liberiaxs Doyen Diva, Ms. Miatta Fahnbulleh
		She’s produced and recorded several classic albums prized by collectors, and her songs are featured on many compilation recordings.
		She’s collaborated with such musical luminaries as Hugh Masekela, Manu D’Bango, Ed Townsend, Donald Byrd, Duke Pearson, Mbamina, Andre Manga, Ebo Taylor, George Lee and Kofi Ghanaba.
		Miatta is actively involved in her continent’s progress, using her music for the African Renaissance, she is cofounder of OBAA: Women of Color in the Arts, and a patron for the African Women’s Development Fund, a global philanthropic and fundraising initiative.
	www.theperspective.org /miatta.html (691 words)

	Black Film Center/Archive Film Holdings: "R"
		Sankofa (1993) - Mona (Oyafunmike Ogunlano), an African American model is on a shoot at the site of a dungeon where Africans were imprisoned until slave ships hauled them away.
		Sankofa (Kofi Ghanaba), guardian of the dungeon site, admonishes Mona to return to her past.
		Haunted by his command, she enters the dungeon and does not emerge until she experiences the pain and degradation of plantation slavery.
	www.indiana.edu /~bfca/collection/films/films_S.html (6537 words)

	Nicholas Kotei Djanie Profile
		Africa has performed with various cultural groups for many official state functions, such as the visits of US President Clinton, SA President Mbeki, Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh.
		He has also collaborated with various popular contemporary artists, including Kojo Antwi, Daddy Lumba, Afro Moses, as well as the acclaimed Ghanaian divine drummer, Kofi Ghanaba.
		During the late 90s, Africa formed the Nokoyejen Cultural Group, as well as performing with the following groups: African Heritage, Steel Pulse (international collaboration), Adishiman, Dance Factory, Okuku Segbeni, Nokoyejen, Lakoeje and the Suade Cultural Troupe.
	www.marimbanet.org.za /drumwkshp/profileafrica.html (467 words)

	Allen, Tony
		If Art Blakey was his god, Jesus was undoubtedly drum pioneer Kofi Ghanaba (aka Guy Warren of Ghana) who had taken Afro-ryddims live and direct to jazz stars like Dizzy, when he gigged in the US through the fifties.
		First thing for Tony was an all drummer show with Khofi Ghanaba at National Theatre in Lagos (find the tapes someone please!), checking out his roots and then he cut the still compelling No Discrimination album.
		The ’80’s saw him playing with King Sunny Ade in London, Ray Lema in Paris and releasing his own Afrobeat gem, NEPA.
	www.wrasserecords.com /artists/info/31.html (1255 words)

	Amazon.ca: Master Drummer From Ghana: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The exquisite quality of Mustapha Tettey Addy's drumming skills is consonant with the richly eclectic traditions of other legendary Ghanaian drummers from the Ga tribe of Accra, Ghana.
		Others in this rich pantheon of Ga drummers whose skills encompass all the rich percussion traditions of Ghana include the venerable Guy Warren or Kofi Ghanaba and his son Allotey Ghanaba.
		The extent of Tettey Addy's virtuosity is manifested in the degree of mastery he demonstrates in the equally rich but quite different drumming traditions of the Ashanti, Ewe, Fanti, and northern tribes of Ghana.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002298 (412 words)

	Traditional West African Music: Ghana and Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Originally a jazz drummer, and a member of the legendary Tempos highlife band in the 1940's, Guy Warren went to the US in the 1950's, playing with jazz legends like Coltrane, Parker and Monk.
		In playing American jazz, he re-discovered his "africanness" and returned to Ghana as Kofi Ghanaba to dig deeper into his own Ghanaian roots.
		This rare "way out there" CD was recorded live in Accra and the result: Ghanian rhythms meet legendary jazz drummer.
	www.rhythmtraders.com /art/html/tradgn.html (1184 words)

	Guy Warren 'The Divine Drummer' RETRO16CD
		Guy Warren, the Ghanaian drummer also known as Kofi Ghanaba, is a unique and radical figure in African music.
		A founding member of the legendary Tempos highlife band in the 1940s, he was also the first African drummer to play with jazz musicians in America.
		He embraced Buddhism and began to experiment with new forms of music.
	www.retroafric.com /html/catalogue/016cd.html (226 words)

	Collection Development Department-African-American Studies: Filmography, S
		Sankofa is a stunning film with great reserves of emotional power and intelligence, though there are some infuriatingly smug moments and points-of-view.
		With; Kofi Ghanaba as Sankofa-the Divine Drummer, Oyafunmike Ogunlano as Mona/Shola, Alexandra Duah as Nunu, Nick Medley as Joe, Mutabaruka as Shango, Afemo Omilami as Noble Ali, Reginald Carter as Father Raphael, Mzuri as Lucy, Jimmy Lee Savage as Mussa, Hasinaut Camara as Jumma, Jim Faircloth as James, Stanley Michelson as Mr.
		Lafayette, John A. Mason as Big Boy, Luise Reid as Esther, Roger Doctor as Nathan, Alditz McKenzie as Kuta, Chrispan Ribgy as the photographer, Maxwell Parris as Baby Ngozi.
	www.lib.unc.edu /cdd/crs/socsci/afro/film--s.html (6267 words)

	ReminiscingonFela1
		Warren (now Kofi Ghanaba) who was playing with Afro-Jazz ten years before Fela’s Koola
		In fact, I’ve been told that Zeal Onyia, when he was with Nigerian Broadcasting
		[Corporation], complained about Fela borrowing Ghanaba’s Afro-Jazz records from the
	www.thenewgong.com /ReminiscingonFela1.html (938 words)

	Guy Warren - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
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		Guy Warren, also known as Kofi Ghanaba, was among the earliest African musicians to exert an influence on world music -- a bold achievement for a musician who was so far out in front of his own time and audience that his presence was barely perceived by most of his colleagues.
		Born in Accra, Ghana, in West Africa, in 1923, he was drawn to music from an early age, especially traditional..
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/card/0,,507450,00.html (164 words)

	Sankofa Film Review - Time Out Film
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		While Mona (Ogunlano), a fl American fashion model, cavorts for a (white) photographer during a shoot at a fortress town on the Ghanaian coast, an old drummer, Sankofa (Ghanaba), warns that her actions are sacrilegious to the now- forgotten sufferings of what was once a slaving post, and orders her to return to the past.
		Miraculously, she is transported back through time to become Shola, house slave on an American sugar plantation, where she is repeatedly abused by her master and where she witnesses the different resistance strategies of her lover Shango and her African-born friend Nunu, who has a power verging on the magical.
	www.timeout.com /film/73988.html (181 words)

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		Wed site promo of new CD by this group.
		Review of 1993 film that features Kofi Ghanaba.
		mentiond 1968 tour of Africa with Kofi Ghanaba.
	guywarren-kofighanaba.freeservers.com /favorite_links.html (55 words)

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