Encounter with Prof Joshua Uzoigwe, exponent of African pianism

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By OSA AMADI, Arts Editor

We are happy or sad in this world depending on the perspective from which we view our lives. The things that happen to us shape our lives for good or for bad depending on how we interpret the events.

I should be a very happy man, and I believe I am, fundamentally. A man who can go (empty-handedly without any physical tool) into a white expatriate’s home in Ikoyi, Apapa, and Victoria Island, and earn N12, 500 in one hour, should be proud of himself and grateful to God who endowed him with such skill that earns him the money.

So it is with my life. I have lived by the ability of my brain and dexterity of my fingers, not by any industrial machine, but by a musical instrument – the piano.

I married my wife, trained my children, did my PGD at NIJ, Masters in LASU and now PhD with money I earned by the skills of my fingers on the piano. The money is not…



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