Ekombi dancers, adorned in colourful costumes, glided across the exhibition hall at the opening of Timi Kakandar's show at Quintessence, Victoria Island, Lagos, on March 28. For the audience, the ...

For decades, Efik highlife has stood as one of Nigeria’s most elegant musical traditions, a genre that blends storytelling, indigenous rhythms, and coastal cultural identity into a sound that is both ...

At a time when many fear that the written and visual literature of the Efik people is fading into memory, Deborah Etim Inyang is deliberately reviving it gently, boldly, and beautifully. Through her ...

The Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi Otu V, has urged the Federal Government to reconsider the reversal of the National Language Policy, which promoted the use of mother tongues as the medium ...

This issue requests the addition of the Efik (efk) language to Mozilla Common Voice for Spontaneous Speech. Efik is an indigenous language spoken mainly in Cross River and Akwa Ibom States, Nigeria, ...

…investment in Nigerian language AI currently prioritises the “Big Four” — Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, and Pidgin English. While these cover tens of millions of speakers, they risk reinforcing linguistic ...

A former colleague walked into my office two months ago, and our conversation was barely 20 minutes before he jokingly accused me of not including his state of origin’s popular languages (Ibibio and ...

The Cross River State House of Assembly has urged the state government to mandate the teaching of Efik language across all primary and secondary schools within the state. The Assembly also recommended ...