King Sunny Ade introduced it to the world outside Africa by adding Hawaiian guitar styles, and other musical elements of jazz, funk and African music modernized it. Jit Jive is another style from Zimbabwe, popularized by a group of young musicians right after the independence of that country in the early 80s. They told me in an interview at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium during their first U.S. tour that after the war, many youths migrated from the villages to Harare, the capital city. Without any employable skills, they formed many bands for recreational purposes. The product is what we know today as Jit and True Jit music.
Highlife is the Ghanaian and Nigerian ballroom music from West Africa.
It is indeed this style of African dance music that first introduced African popular music to Europe and America more than four decades ago. Kotoja , performed at Afribbean '98, will be back at Afribbean '99 in San Jose, led by Nigerian-born Ken O. Makossa is Cameroon dance music. Mbalax is a contemporary Senegalese music, highly percussive sound dominated by the goat-skinned Sabar drum. Best example of this music is Youssou Ndour, Baaba Mal, Ismael Lo and lately many newcomers on the Senegalese music scene. Mbaquanga is the name given to South African black music and dance from Soweto.