Legendary Guitarist and Highlife musician Anthony Ackah known by his stage name Akablay has blamed Musicologists for the trend of celebrated musicians and their work not known to the generations.
According to him, the inability of professors and students studying musicology to write about legends has contributed massively to the loss of the country’s artistry, culture and history of music and musicians.
Speaking in an exclusive interview on Max Morning Show in Accra on Thursday, Akablay mentioned that the work of a Musicologist is to write about the musicians who have contributed heavily in the country’s music scenes for their names to live on.
”Our Musicologists are not doing their job right. Musicians in Ghana are not the ones to write about themselves. I am not the one to write about myself. My job is to play and produce music so the Musicologist job is to write about us,” he stated.
Citing Kent Benson and Peter White, he said they had no knowledge about how their books were written and charged the country’s Musicologist to research and write about musicians.
That, he believed would make legends live on and their music would be known to generations.
