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,[1] and the first African to obtain a degree in music education in the United States,[2] where he received a PhD from Michigan State University in 1963.[1]
He taught at secondary school level in Nigeria and later at the department of Music at the University of Nigeria.[3] His work has included the development and promotion of choral music in Nigeria, including by setting the works of young Nigerian lyricists to music.[1]