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Akin Euba (born Olatunji Akin Euba, Lagos, Nigeria, April 28, 1935) is a Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist.

Euba studied composition with Arnold Cooke at the Trinity College of Music, London, and with Roy Travis at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Ghana, Legon (1974) and serves as Andrew Mellon Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the founder and director of the Centre for Intercultural Music Arts, London.

Euba's scholarly interests include the musicology and ethnomusicology of modern interculturalism.

His compositions involve a synthesis of African traditional material (often from his own ethnic group, the Yoruba people) and contemporary classical music. His most ambitious composition is the opera (1970), which blends West African percussion and atenteben flutes with twelve tone technique.

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