ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST KOFI GBOLONYO, who hails from Ghana, has been teaching students about traditional West African music and dance for decades.
On top of being a long-time faculty member at both the University of British Columbia and Capilano University, he is the founding director of Adanu Habobo, a semi-professional West African music and dance ensemble, and the Nunya Academy, a school in Ghana that offers a music-training program for children. He’s trained to teach in both English and Ewe, a tonal language spoken in southeastern Ghana.
