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.