'Artist the healer': Music therapy, trauma healing – Nation

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An artist with dreadlocks sitting on a rug with a drum, utilizing music therapy.

It’s for a good reason that I am seated in a restaurant along Monrovia Street on a Saturday afternoon. I am here at the invitation of Dr Humphrey Jeremiah Ojwang, the self-driven and indefatigable African narratives epistemology scholar.

I am not alone here. I am part of a small crowd of three men and a lady. We are all Ojwang’s people – each of us connected to him in a way or another. As soon as Ojwang shrugs off the Monrovia Street buzz and walks into the room, we reflexively rise to acknowledge his arrival. To say he is in…