CONAECDA
Conference of Autochthonous Ethnic Nationalities Communities Development Associations
PurposeCommunity development, language education, indigenous land rights
Location
Region served
Central and Northern Nigeria
Membership (2021)
15 states
Official language
English and indigenous languages of Nigeria
Secretary General
Suleman A.D. Sukukum

CONAECDA (acronym for Conference of Autochthonous Ethnic Nationalities Communities Development Associations) is an organization that serves as a coalition of indigenous ethnic communities in central and northern Nigeria.[1] CONAECDA works in diverse areas such as language development,[2] community development, and indigenous land rights.[3] It represents a few hundred indigenous groups that are spread across 15 Nigerian states.[4][5]

Overview

CONAECDA has chapters in 15 Nigerian states, including Kogi State,[6] Benue State, Yobe State,[7] Kwara State, Plateau State,[8] Kaduna State, Bauchi State, Nassarawa State, Taraba State, Adamawa State, Niger State, and other states.

Many ethnic groups from the Middle Belt of Nigeria have representatives with CONAECDA.[9]

The Secretary General of CONAECDA is Dr. Suleman A.D. Sukukum.[10]

Indigenous languages

CONAECDA is active in promoting minority and local ethnic languages in Nigeria. It has asked state governments in Nigeria to allow local ethnic languages to be taught in the educational system.[11] It has also organized workshops and conferences across Nigeria relating to language development, language education, community development, and indigenous rights.[12][13][14] CONAECDA also collaborates with SIL International on language documentation and development.[15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Northern groups vow: We will retrieve our lands from Fulani gunmen". Tribune Online. 2021-08-14. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  2. ↑ "Language & Literature". Berom Educational and Cultural Organization. 2021-02-26. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  3. ↑ "Groups vow to tackle criminality in northern Nigeria". Daily Post Nigeria. 2021-08-14. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  4. ↑ "Indigenous northern ethnic groups move to resist Fulani herdsmen's attacks". Platinum Post News. 2021-08-13. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  5. ↑ "We're Coming After You To Reclaim Our Lands, Communities – Coalition Of 400 Northern Groups Threatens Herdsmen". Sahara Reporters. 2021-08-13. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  6. ↑ "CONAECDA Felicitates with Attah Igala, HRM Mathew Opaluwa on the Successful ascention of the throne". The Nigerian Post. 2021-11-29. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  7. ↑ "Insecurity threatens existence of minority languages in Nigeria-CONAECDA". The Sun Nigeria. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  8. ↑ Roger Blench (2018-12-02). "Kay Williamson Educational Foundation (KWEF) | Report to Trustees covering financial year 2017-2018" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  9. ↑ "Middle Belt Groups allege Fulani herdsmen have taken over their ancestral homelands". Vanguard News. 2016-05-03. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  10. ↑ Madugu, Ralph (2021-08-26). "We Are Coming to Recover our Lands – Autochthonous Communities to Land Grabbers". Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  11. ↑ Blench, Roger (2020). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (PDF). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  12. ↑ "Language should be responsible tool for nationalism-Mike Rueck". Enduring News. 2019-12-03. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  13. ↑ Blench, Roger. 2019. Old data and new technologies: the seamless integration of linguistics, literacy and translation for Nigerian minority languages. Jos Linguistic Circle, Jos, 13th March, 2019.
  14. ↑ Blench, Roger (2020-12-31). "Research on the Plateau languages of Central Nigeria". Afrika und Übersee. Hamburg University Press. 93: 3–44. doi:10.15460/auue.2021.93.1.209.
  15. ↑ Ken Decker, John Muniru, Julius Dabet, Benard Abraham, Jonah Innocent. 2020. A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Kyoli (Cori) [cry] Language of Kaduna State, Nigeria. SIL International.
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