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Echezonachukwu Nduka Quotes

born 1989 Nigeria

Echezonachukwu Chinedu Nduka(born 19 July 1989) is a Nigerian poet, pianist, author, recording artist, and ethnomusicologist specializing in African pianism by West African composers. His work has been featured on BBC, Radio Nacional Clasica de Argentina, Radio France International (rfi), and Classical Journey.

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"The liberation to which I refer is both personal and collective."

"African pianism is the point where Western classical music and African indigenous music converge."

"Whatever I wrote as a child were attempts to recreate what I read and imagined."

"The soundscape reassures me of the endless possibilities in classical music and the question of borderless identities."

"Both worlds were there from the beginning, but music influenced my imagination first as a listener, long before I became a curious reader."

If any of my poems could literarily save a person’s life, I would be most amazed by both the poem and the person whose life it saved. That would be nothing short of a miracle!

"I was listening to a lot of jazz music, thinking about Black history, the civil rights movement, and the place of music in the struggle for liberation and preservation of memory."

Blessed are the undefiled in the way.
There are two ways to view the body.
Resurrection and crucifixion.
Everything that falls between is ritual.

I like to think of poems as living beings with traits because while some take very little time to write, others take a while—and sometimes I come away with the feeling that I may never finish a poem.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Echezonachukwu Nduka (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.