02/06/2025
We make some efforts to teach students how to construct African Musical instruments in schools but this efforts have not been cemented over years.
Student graduate to look for western musical instruments and eventually end with electronic music.
Apart from the Yorubas renowned for making iyaalu and gudugudu and consequently infusing it into their electronic music, I don't know that ethnic group that's seriously interested in projecting and promoting it's instrumental resources.
The Igbos are notable for oja, ngedegwu, alo, ikoro and so on. But music from such instruments are gradually tilting into extinction both in social circles and religious places.
Now, I spend 4 years in school learning how to produce African Musical instruments (Music Technology).
The big ❓
1. Is my church interested in the use of these instruments or my Bishop would import pipe organ from Europe 😁
2. What is the general acceptance of these instruments produced in Africa in the African societies today
3. What is the value of these instruments in the marketplace
4. Who are their makers and players, do they model figures the younger generations would aspire to be like?
Our children are gradually loosing grip of our language and we see same thing in our musical instruments. These are legacies being lost as we chase modernization.