Kwabena nketia biography of rory

Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer (1921–2019)

Joseph Hanson Kwabena NketiaFGA GM MSG (22 June 1921 – 13 March 2019) was a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer.

Considered Africa's premier musicologist, during his lifetime, he was called a "living legend" and "easily the most published and best known authority on African music and aesthetics in the world",^[1] with more than 200 publications and 80 musical compositions to his credit.^[2]

Early life and education

Born in 1921 in Mampong, Gold Coast (modern Ghana), J.

H. Kwabena Nketia was his parents' only child.^[3] He first trained as a teacher at the Presbyterian Training College, Akropong.^[4]

On a government scholarship, he went to Britain at the age of 23 to attend the University of London from 1944 to 1949, beginning with two years of study in linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies.^[5] In 1949, he began three years'