The Yorùbá God of Drumming: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood that Talks

Bode Omojola is Five College Professor of Music at Mount Holyoke College and the Five College Consortium in the United States. A former Radcliffe Fellow in Musicology at Harvard University, Omojola received his PhD from the University of Leicester, England. He combines academic research with music composition. His opera, Odyssey of a Dream, was premiered in 2018 by the Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra and Five College Consortium African opera students. bomojola@mtholyoke.edu.