Akin Euba (b. 1935), Nigerian Composer, Professor & Author, is featured at AfriClassical.com
Cosmas W. K. Mereku of The University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, writes in the Guest Book at AfriClassical.com on Sunday, July 28, 2013:
You
have a fantastic website. What a great resource to teachers of
musical composition like us who are trying our best to sustain
classicism in our countries as well as on the continent where
majority of our elite musicians (ethnomusicologists, music educators,
traditional music performers, etc., alike) think classical music is
foreign (a culture that was forced on the continent -Eurocentricism).
Now my students will know how both Africans as well as those in the
diaspora of African descend had contributed to this wonderful genre
we aspire to nurture in Africa. After all, the melodic, harmonic and
percussive qualities of our instruments make them a perfect vehicle
for the expression of the multi-musicality African composers are
striving to achieve in today¿s multi-lingual, multi-cultural and
multi-interdisciplinary world of globalization.
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