In recognition of the life and works of Professor Emeritus Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia, renowned Africanist, teacher, ethno-musicologist, composer and poet, linguist and sociologist, and former director of the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana, Legon, and of the International Centre for African Music and Dance (ICAMD), Ghana, the homeland of this illustrious son with gratification wants to celebrate, honor, and thank God for a life well living.