This album features music produced in sub-Saharan West Africa from the late 1950s up to the early 1980s - a golden era in African music. With highlife guitars and horns, Guinean big-band music, early Senegalese mbalax with its tasty Latin influences and the funky Afro-beat sound that shakes the hippest dancefloors across the globe, this is the big beat of West Africa! Track Listing: 01. E T Mensah - Ghana-Guinee-Mali (Ghana) 02. Geraldo Pino and The Heartbeats - Let Them Talk (Sierra Leone) 03. Bembeya Jazz - Whiskey Soda (Guinea) 04. Dexter Johnson and The International Band feat. Laba Sosseh - Manicero (Senegal) 05. Celestine Ukwu - Ife Si Na Chi (Nigeria) 06. Balla Et Ses Balladins - Moi Je Suis Décourage (Guinea) 07. No. 1 De Dakar Feat. Doudou Sow - Geej (Senegal) 08. Horoya Band - Were Were (Guinea) 09. Super Sweet Talks - The Lords Prayer (Ghana) 10. Sir Victor Uwaifo and His Melody Maestroes - Ekassa No. 34 / Igiodo-Giodo (Nigeria) 11. Eric Agyeman - Abenaa Na Aden? (Ghana) 12. Orchestre Rail Band De Bamako feat. Salif Keita - Mali Cèbalenw (Mali) 13. Orchestre Baobab - Boulmamine (Senegal)