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Obituary: Ambrose Adekoya Campbell (1919-2006)

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Nigerian singer, guitarist, percussionist, composer and bandleader Ambrose Adekoya Campbell died in the UK on June 22, 2006. He was 86 years old and passed away peacefully in his sleep.While no single person can be credited with establishing African music in Britain--the process has been gradual and ongoing, and must have begun soon after Africans first arrived in the country many hundreds of years ago--Campbell's influence in the mid twentieth century was massive and unprecedented. Most West African ...

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Ambrose Adekoya Campbell: London Is The Place For Me 3

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History, they say, is written by the victors. Without a doubt, it's written by the governing majority, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the near invisibility, until very recently, of black and African people in chronicles of British life and culture.

Honest Jons provides a vibrant antidote to this Eurocentric bias with the London Is The Place For Me compilation series (not to mention, of course, restoring some important early black British music to the racks). ...

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