Memories of Emeritus Prof. J.H. Kwabena Nketia

A Great Day Today!

March 13, 2021

Professor Kwabena Nketia,

Two years today,
In glory, and on a journey divine,
You took your ancestral flight,
Having known a life of no respite!

In all things esoteric or progressive,
You took great masterly delight,
That Beloved Africa,
Might everso grow in height!

In me, your Associate unworthy,
You did confide indigenous mysteries
That are as yet to none untold,
And tasked me, with your new message
To bind, to share, and to uphold!

As the days and years unfold,
Please:
Grant me the funds, the friends,
The space, the peace, the mind
And the fortitude to share
With all mankind your ideal sublime!

From now,
And for years to come!

You shall never be forgotten!

AMEN!

April 25, 2019

Dear all,

EVENING OF REMEMBRANCE IN MEMORY OF THE LATE
PROFESSOR EMERITUS J.H. KWABENA NKETIA
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2019 AT 6.00 P.M. AT THE GREAT HALL.

The University of Ghana will hold an Evening of Remembrance in memory of the late Professor Emeritus J.H. Kwabena Nketia as follows:

Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Time: 6.00 p.m.
Venue: Great Hall.

This will be a service in his memory, where tributes and an exhortation will form part of the programme, in addition to music, both traditional African music, contemporary and hymns.

In attendance will be the University of Ghana Jubilee Choir and Ghana Police Central Band and the Harmonious Chorale.

This is an open invitation to members of the University community, and extended to the public.

All are cordially invited to this programme to honour the memory of Prof. Emeritus J.H. Kwabena Nketia.

Stella A. Amoa
Director of Public Affairs
University of Ghana

We Sung, And You Danced!

April 24, 2019

You Were Always Present At Prof. Bediako Memorial Lectures And It Was A Delight Watching You Dance Anytime It Was Our Time To Sing, Irresistibly Forcing Everyone Else To Join You Dance Along...The DamCity Chorale Will Forever Miss You. Rest Well Papa. Rest Well.

Guardian of our African Ancestry and Music

April 1, 2019

Our most Profound Professor of Ethnomusicolgy, African Music, Composition, Musicologist and a world of other expertise. I met Prof. Nketia in 1994 (at University of Ghana at Legon) at his invitation of African Art Music composers, the first of such seminar in our continent. I remember being overwhelmed by the wisdom of such a deeply thoughtful act of hosting such a seminar. I have followed some of the scholarly /Art music works of the great Professor and in exchange this act has profoundly changed my academic life. May our good Lord rest our great academe Papa in HIS ETERNAL PEACE and may his powerful following and influence raise many other African Music scholars for our mother Africa. Dr. Njoora, Timothy K., Former Dean, School of Visual and Performing Arts, Kenyatta University, Kenya.

A life well lived Papa

March 22, 2019

Safe in the arms of Jesus safe on his gentle breast
There by his love o'ershaded sweetly my soul shall rest Hark 'tis the voice of angels born in a song to me Over the fields of glory over the jasper sea Safe in the arms of Jesus...

A lif

Endless thoughts of life

March 18, 2019

Pipes blow, tunes play, horns honk

Sound travels and fades

Cultures rise and fall

People are birthed & people die

Identities are carved

Identities are faltered and altered

So! Know thine self!!

These was a messege you managed to send across at every opportunity. Your personality, your knowledge, you love for research and education transcends beyond reason.

Your gift, or should I say talent or skill, in composition beautifully carved and packaged the wholesome of our Ghanaian rich culture. The graceful notes that you beautiful weave through a sweet lyrical wheel, produces a rare musical end product. You who have gained the praise of all tribes.

Adzekyee nsroma, yen ara yen deyhe, from where can we hear your sweet down toned voice? Your lecture was a thrill, talk more of the humor and episodes of sweet educational orgasm that always comes with through friendly conversations.

Your smile was one that keeps the heart in warmth at all times. Your passion, your love, your desire for cultural preserverance was always projected in your presentations. You can't be replaced s Prof, because your life long work burns in the souls of knowledge thirsty musicians like myself.

Your works :

Adanse Kronkron

Wo nya Amane

Adikanfo

Amidst the 100's and more which you composed..

The Beaty of its melody......

The passion with which you lectured and educated some is permanently registered in our hearts. Prof, it's our prayer that your unending legacy will continue in the hearts of we your students, who will stop at nothing until we have evolved into another realm of artistic ethnomusicological terrane.

Paapa, we don't grief alone, the entire fraternity of the Ghana Art Music Industry are shudderd at heart because of your untimely departure. Even as we grief, we are in high elation because your legacy will forever remain through your numerous research works.

Our father

Our brother

Our friend

Our teacher

Our confidante

Rest well

Till we meet again at Jesus's feet,

Oheneba

Damrifa

Da yie

W) jogban

R. I. P. PROFESSOR EMERITUS J. H. NKETIA.

I MICHAEL PADMORE AKO ADJEI AM GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE KNOWLEDGE YOU IMPARTED INTO MY SPIRIT DURING MY DAYS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA - LEGON

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