highlife - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

The songs “All For You” and “Ghana Freedom” are by E. T. Mensah, who was known as the “King” of this genre, and his band The Tempos. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this genre that bands such as the Jazz Kings developed in expensive dance clubs. This Ghanaian genre’s popularity in Nigeria influenced the development of jùjú and Afrobeat.

ANSWER: highlife

[10m] Ghanaian highlife keeps time with these instruments playing on beats 4, 6, and 8 in an 8-beat cycle. Nigerian highlife instead uses these percussion instruments’ namesake rhythmic patterns, whose son and rumba types are the foundation of Cuban music.

ANSWER: claves (“CLAH-vays”) [accept son clave or rumba clave]

[10e] In the early 2000s, Nigerian musicians such as Yinka Ayefele and Tope Alabi fused highlife with this genre. Mahalia Jackson sang in this genre of Black religious music.

ANSWER: gospel [accept gospel highlife]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	11	10.00	73%	18%	9%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	7.78	78%	0%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	7.50	63%	0%	13%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	8	8.75	75%	13%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	12.50	83%	33%	8%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley A	0	0	0	0
Berkeley D	Stanford B	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Stanford A	0	0	10	10
Arizona State	UC Irvine	0	0	10	10
UC Santa Barbara	UCLA A	0	0	10	10
UCSD C	UCSD A	0	10	10	20
UCSD B	UCLA B	0	0	0	0
Brock	Toronto C	10	0	10	20
Simon Fraser	Carleton University	0	0	10	10
Guelph	Toronto F	0	0	10	10
McGill A	Ottawa	0	0	10	10
McGill B	Western A	0	10	10	20
McMaster B	Toronto D	0	0	0	0
Queen's	Western B	0	0	10	10
Toronto G	Toronto E	0	0	0	0
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto B	0	0	0	0
Western C	UBC A	0	0	10	10
Waterloo A	UBC B	0	10	10	20
Central Florida C	Central Florida A	0	0	10	10
Central Florida B	Florida B	0	0	10	10
Florida C	Florida A	0	0	10	10
CWRU B	Michigan B	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Michigan C	0	0	0	0
Michigan State	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Pittsburgh	0	10	10	20
Ohio State C	CWRU A	0	0	10	10
Virginia	Liberty A	0	0	10	10
Liberty B	South Carolina B	0	0	0	0
James Madison B	North Carolina A	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	NC State B	0	0	10	10
NC State A	VCU	0	0	10	10
Duke	Virginia Tech A	0	0	0	0
Liberty C	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
North Carolina B	Wake Forest	0	0	10	10
William and Mary	North Carolina C	0	0	10	10
Chicago B	Illinois C	0	0	0	0
Illinois B	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Indiana A	10	0	0	10
Northwestern D	Indiana C	0	0	10	10
Chicago C	Northwestern C	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Chicago E	0	0	0	0
Illinois A	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	Northwestern B	0	0	10	10
Bowdoin A	Bowdoin B	0	0	10	10
Brown	Brandeis A	0	0	10	10
Brandeis B	Dartmouth A	0	0	10	10
MIT	Dartmouth B	0	10	10	20
Harvard A	Harvard B	0	0	10	10
Southern Connecticut State	Yale	10	10	10	30
Iowa State	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Carleton College	Minnesota A	0	10	10	20
Missouri B	Missouri A	0	0	10	10
Washington A	Washington B	0	0	0	0
Texas A&M A	Texas A	0	0	0	0
Texas B	Murray State A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Alabama B	Louisville A	0	0	0	0
Bruin	Tennessee A	0	0	10	10
WashU A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Louisville B	0	0	10	10
Kentucky	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt B	Mississipi State	0	0	10	10
WashU B	Sewanee	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh B	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Warwick A	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Cambridge B	10	10	10	30
Durham	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Manchester	0	10	10	20
UCL	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Montpellier	LSE	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Oxford A	0	10	10	20
Oxford B	Cardiff	0	0	10	10
Imperial C	Oxford C	0	0	10	10
City St. George's	Southampton B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Warwick B	0	0	0	0
Binghamton B	Cornell C	0	0	10	10
Cornell A	Cornell B	0	10	10	20
Binghamton A	Penn State	0	0	0	0
RIT	Rochester	0	0	0	0