Wulomei is a Ghanaian music group that was founded in 1973 by Nii Tei Ashitey,[1] with the encouragement of the dramatist and musician Saka Acquaye.
Mensah, Tubman Stars and Worker's Brigade highlife bands, but decided to create a more "rootsy" sound to, as he once put it, "bring something out for the youth to progress and to forget foreign music and do their own thing".
Except for an amplified guitar, played with the West African finger-picking style, Wulomei's instruments are indigenous, with atenteben bamboo flutes and traditional local percussion that includes the giant gombe frame drums,[2] which provide a deep percussive "bass-line".
[1] Following Wulomei's initial success, there was a proliferation of so-called "Ga cultural groups" such as Blemabii, Dzadzeloi, Abladei, Agbafoi, and Ashiedu Keteke.
Wulomei's gombe drum player, "Big Boy" Nii Adu, formed the Bukom Ensemble and Wulomei's lead female singer, Naa Amanua, formed the Suku Troupe.