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About Wilberforce Echezona
- Wilberforce William Chukudinka Echezona was a Nigerian musicologist and a pioneer teacher of music in Nigerian universities.
- He was the first Igbo man to be educated at London's Trinity College of Music, and the first African to obtain a degree in music education in the United States, where he received a PhD from Michigan State University in 1963.He taught at secondary school level in Nigeria and later at the department of Music at the University of Nigeria.
- His work has included the development and promotion of choral music in Nigeria, including by setting the works of young Nigerian lyricists to music.
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