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Laz
Edward Nwanyelu Ekwueme (HRH) was
born on January 28, 1936,at Oko,Orumba north local Government Area
of Anambra State, Nigeria. He attended Government College umuahia.
He later won numerous medals and in the eastern annually (1955-1957)
as prizes in the Eastern Nigerian Festival of arts especially in Music,
Drama and Literature. In 1960, he won a Nigerian Federal Government scholarship which took him to the Royal College of Music, London. He took a Bachelor of Music, (B Mus) Degree of Music (M. Mus) of the Royal College of Music London in addition to 12 professional teaching and performing diplomas in various branches of music and in speech and drama. He played leading roles in the African Theartre production of the African Service of the British broadcasting corporation from 1960 to 1964. He was a lecturer in Music at the University of Nigeria Nsukka. In 1966, he went on an Aggrey fellowship to Yale University in the United states of America from where he obtained a P.H.D. in the Theory of music. He also taught at Yale. |
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In 1974 he founded the department of music at the University of Lagos and was the principal actor in the establishment of the centre of cultural studies. That year he founded the LAZ EKUWEME CHORALE. He was for 8 years the public orator of Unilag. A multi-talented genius, professor Ekwueme, has put Nigeria, indeed Africa, on the world map in the scholarship, creativity and artistic performance of various branches of the arts, particularly in the field of Music, Theatre, Literature and Communications. He has written several books and has made a major mark into the budding Nigerian Film Industry, playing leading roles in more than 15 Films and Soap Operas. Among others he was the trainer and director of National Choir for FESTAC (1977), he is married to Dr. Lucy Ekwueme, associate Professor, Unilag and has three children, two boys and one girl all graduates. Currently he is the traditional ruler of Oko,
Anambra State. It is our pleasure and honour to salute and present
His Royal Highness professor Ekweme IV, Eze Isiaka II Ozioko Igwe
Oko. |
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