AKPABOT, Samuel Ekpe

Born in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, October 3, 1932 
Died on August 7, 2000 

• Akpabot was a Nigerian composer and ethnomusicolgist. He studied composition, organ, and trumpet in London at the Royal College of Music,¹ and studied Nigerian music at the University of Ife in Nigeria.²
• Akpabot studied ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago and Michigan State. His doctoral dissertation, on the music of the Ibibo people of Nigeria, was published in 1975.³
• Akpabot taught at Michigan State University and the University of Uyo in Nigeria.⁴
• Akpabot’s compositions include concert works blending Nigerian folk elements and Western classical style, as well as sacred music.⁵

Short biography from Naxos 

1. Godwin Sadoh, “The Orchestral Works of Samuel Akpabot, a Nigerian Composer-Ethnomusicologist,” The Musical Times 151, no. 1913 (2010): 79, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25759519.
2. “Samuel Akpabot,” Naxos, accessed January 27, 2022, https://www.naxos.com/person/Samuel_Akpabot/17615.htm.
3. William J. Zick, “Samuel Ekpe Akpabot, Nigerian Composer, Born Oct. 3, 1932,” AfriClassical (October 1, 2007), accessed January 27, 2022, https://africlassical.blogspot.com/2007/10/samuel-ekpe-akpabot-nigerian-composer.html.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.