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Calypso: Enslaved African gift and its Mighty Sparrow, By Owei Lakemfa
Ololade Bamidele · Premium Times
Published 3 Oct 2026, 9:02 pm·5 d ago·1 min read
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Slinger Francisco, better known as Mighty Sparrow, the “Calypso King of the World”, flew away on 27 September. 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 accepted […] The post Calypso: Enslaved African gift and its Mighty Sparrow, By Owei Lakemfa appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria .
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