Rapper M.anifest is celebrating one of the monumental forces behind his successful music career, Prof Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia. He is thanking the man, one of Ghana’s foremost composers who vetted most of his songs, for the positive impact he has had on his life, personally, and on Ghana as a whole. Considered Africa’s premier musicologist, the renowned professor passed …

The grandfather of musician M.anifest, Professor Emeritus Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia has kicked the bucket at the age of 97. According to Asempanews, the Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer died at the Legon Hospital in Accra, Wednesday, March 13, after short illness. Kwabena Nketia was born (June 22, 1921) at Mampong, then a little town in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. …