# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-h-kwabena-nketia
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:45:28.103Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-h-kwabena-nketia"
name: "J. H. Kwabena Nketia"
slug: "j-h-kwabena-nketia"
description: "Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia was a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer. Considered Africa's premier musicologist, during his lifetime, he was called a \"living legend\" and \"easily the most published and best known authority on African music and aesthetics in the world\", with more than 200 publications and 80 musical compositions to his credit."
tagline: "Ethnomusicologist (1921-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J._H._Kwabena_Nketia_2015_(cropped).jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1921-06-22"
deathDate: "2019-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.81
  momentum:             7.648661400544876
  historical:           8.562565333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ebee757e-48d6-4403-827f-7a36b107e674"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87._%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4._%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%86%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "جيه. اتش. كوابينا نكيتيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._H._Kwabena_Nketia"
    title: "J. H. Kwabena Nketia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._H._Kwabena_Nketia"
    title: "J. H. Kwabena Nketia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hanson_Kwabena_Nketia"
    title: "Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hanson_Kwabena_Nketia"
    title: "Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._H._Nketia"
    title: "J. H. Nketia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hanson_Kwabena_Nketia"
    title: "Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hanson_Kwabena_Nketia"
    title: "Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84"
    title: "Нкетия, Квабена Джозеф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q965420"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump