Duke University Press announces the publication of a new book Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music. It is an ethnography of hiplife, a popular Ghanaian music genre that builds on Pan-Africanist networks to combine hip-hop with highlife music and proverbial poetry. It tells tales of commodity culture, music, and celebrity in urban Accra and of the increasingly transnational lives of African artists. It shows how young rappers, beatmakers, DJs, and media workers in Ghana and its diaspora use music to gain social status, wealth, and respect