Igbo Highlife -

While Ghanaian highlife often featured a clean, picking guitar style, Igbo highlife elevated the guitar to a quasi-vocal role. Players like Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe and Sunday “Golden” Agu developed a fluid, sliding style that mimicked the tonal inflections of the Igbo language. This "talking guitar" became a defining feature, capable of weaving intricate, conversational lines that answered the vocalist.