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The Secretary General of the Ghana Commission for UNESCO, Ama Serwah Nerquaye-Tetteh, has announced that Ghana’s highlife music genre will be officially recognised as the country’s ‘intangible heritage’ this year.
This development follows numerous conferences and engagements led by the Ghana Folklore Board and the Ghana Cultural Forum, aimed at securing UNESCO recognition for Ghanaian highlife on its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH).
Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) includes practices, expressions, knowledge, and skills recognized by UNESCO as integral to a place’s cultural identity.
Countries like Jamaica and Congo have already had reggae and rhumba respectively listed as their intangible heritage by UNESCO.
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