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Calypso: Enslaved African gift and its Mighty Sparrow, by Owei Lakemfa

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Slinger Francisco, better known as Mighty Sparrow, the “Calypso King of the World”, flew away on September 27, 2026. He was ninety. Calypso music was invented in the seventeenth century by African slaves in Trinidad who had mainly been taken from the Ibibio, Efik and Igbo peoples in present-day Nigeria and Congo. It is generally […] The post Calypso: Enslaved African gift and its Mighty Sparrow, by Owei Lakemfa appeared first on Vanguard News.

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