Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. Living the Hiplife is an ethnographic account of hiplife in Ghana and its diaspora, based on extensive research among artists and audiences in Accra, Ghana's capital city; New York; and London.

The culture and customs of Ghana today are a product of diversity in traditional forms, influenced by a long history of Islamic and European contact. Written expressly for students and the general reader, Culture and Customs of Ghana authoritatively discusses the vibrant and adaptable people, from their religions to music and dance.

Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium through which Ghanaians negotiated gendered and generational social relations, Nate Plageman traces the history of highlife in urban Ghana during much of the 20th century and documents a range of figures that fueled the music's emergence, evolution, and explosive popularity.