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Ọjà kachasị ukwuu onye odeakwụkwọ bụ Paul Basu chọpụtara dị ihe dịka 26cm n'ogologo, ma nke kacha nta dị 14cm n'ogologo.
This sentence wrongly attributes the size finding to Paul Basu. Basu’s page quotes ethnomusicologist Joy N. Lo-Bamijoko, who wrote that the biggest ọjà she discovered was about 26 cm and the smallest about 14 cm.
Full reasoning
The problem here is misattribution. Paul Basu did write the web page cited on this topic, but on that page he is explicitly quoting Joy N. Lo-Bamijoko’s 1987 article Classification of Igbo Musical Instruments, Nigeria. In Basu’s text, the sentence is:
“The biggest ọja discovered by this author is about 26cm long, and the smallest about 14cm long.”
Because this line appears inside Basu’s quotation of Lo-Bamijoko, “this author” refers to Lo-Bamijoko, not Basu. Basu is relaying her description; he is not claiming that he personally discovered those size extremes.
A second source confirms that Joy N. Lo-Bamijoko is the author of the underlying 1987 article. So the article text is incorrect in saying that Paul Basu discovered the largest and smallest examples. The size figures may be right, but the attribution to Basu is not.
2 sources
- Alele, Ọja, Flute - [Re:]Entanglements
On Paul Basu’s page, he quotes Joy Nwosu Lo-Bamijoko: “The biggest ọja discovered by this author is about 26cm long, and the smallest about 14cm long.” This appears within Basu’s reproduction of Lo-Bamijoko’s 1987 account.
- Classification of Igbo musical instruments, Nigeria | African Music : Journal of the International Library of African Music
The journal page identifies the 1987 article’s author as “Joy N. Lo-Bamijoko,” confirming that the underlying statement belongs to her article, not to Paul Basu.