Report just filtered in that popular musical legend Prof. Sir Victor Efosa Uwaifo (M.O.N) is dead. He was 80 years old.
He was popularly known by his stage name “Guitar Boy”. The legendary Nigerian died after a brief illness.
In his lifetime, Uwaifo was a prolific songwriter, sculptor, music and instrument inventor.
Uwaifo was honoured with the National Merit Honours of Member of the Order of the Niger (MON).
He was the country’s first Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Tourism and winner of the first gold disc in Africa (Joromi), released in 1965.
Uwaifo obtained a B.A. Honors (first class valedictorian), Masters degree and Ph.D in Architectural Sculpture, University of Benin (UNIBEN).
The deceased lectured at the UNIBEN’s Department of Fine and Applied Art.
