Cosmas W. K. Mereku: 'What a great resource to teachers of musical composition like us who are trying our best to sustain classicism in our countries'

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.