Highlife is still going strong even if Afrobeats is currently popular.Nana Asaase.
Highlife is not gradually losing off, contrary to assertions made by poet and literary mentor Nana Asaase.
Princess Forson 
Many people have expressed concern over the genre's apparent demise as a result of the popularity of other music genres, particularly Afrobeats.
Veteran highlife performer Gyedu-Blay Ambolley claimed a few weeks ago that the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards were to blame for the highlife genre's woes.
On Joy FM's "Showbiz A-Z," Nana Asaase, a representative of the Ghana Folklore Board, gave his voice to the discussion of highlife by outlining the highlife genre's current status as a candidate for UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage.
"Highlife is the topic we're discussing. The one thing they all have in common is highlife denominator for a lot of these things that are coming up. You can't do Afrobeats without talking about highlife.
There are individuals doing highlife, there are people in the background promoting highlife. We might have the numbers showing on Twitter. The number of people following this when we talk about the people who are doing the business of selling the music". He told Dadzie.
Ask the people who now do highlife are visible Nana Asaase said, there are different layers of the audience. I dare say Wiyaala's music even venture into highlife. Atongo Zimba too. I think sometimes we just discredit ourselves.
Highlife, a music genres of Ghanaian origin is being considered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organization (UNESCO) to be listed as intangible heritage. If this goes through Ghanaian will duly be credited as owners of the music genres.
