By adding Ghanaian percussion instruments to American jazz music, Kofi Ghanaba integrated African and American musical sounds to create the genre Afro-jazz. His first album, released in 1956, was called Africa Speaks, America Answers.
After Ghana's Kofi Ghanaba left his home and arrived in New York City in 1954 to play jazz, he saw how African percussion instruments, like conga and hand drums, could produce a cultural fusion that asserted the music's African roots and thereby create a whole new style: Afro-jazz.
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