CONAECDA explained
| CONAECDA |
| Full Name: | Conference of Autochthonous Ethnic Nationalities Communities Development Associations |
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| Purpose: | Community development, language education, indigenous land rights |
| Location Country: |  Nigeria |
| Region Served: | Central and Northern Nigeria |
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| Membership: | 15 states |
| Membership Year: | 2021 |
| Language: | English and indigenous languages of Nigeria |
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| Sec Gen: | Suleman A.D. Sukukum |
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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]
Notes and References
- Web site: Northern groups vow: We will retrieve our lands from Fulani gunmen . Tribune Online . 2021-08-14 . 2022-01-16.
- Web site: Language & Literature . Berom Educational and Cultural Organization . 2021-02-26 . 2022-01-16.
- Web site: Groups vow to tackle criminality in northern Nigeria . Daily Post Nigeria . 2021-08-14 . 2022-01-16.
- Web site: Indigenous northern ethnic groups move to resist Fulani herdsmen's attacks . Platinum Post News . 2021-08-13 . 2022-01-16.
- Web site: We're Coming After You To Reclaim Our Lands, Communities – Coalition Of 400 Northern Groups Threatens Herdsmen . Sahara Reporters . 2021-08-13 . 2022-01-16.
- Web site: CONAECDA Felicitates with Attah Igala, HRM Mathew Opaluwa on the Successful ascention of the throne. . The Nigerian Post . 2021-11-29 . 2022-01-16.
- Web site: Insecurity threatens existence of minority languages in Nigeria-CONAECDA . The Sun Nigeria . 18 August 2019 . 2022-01-16.
- Web site: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation (KWEF) | Report to Trustees covering financial year 2017-2018. Roger Blench. 2018-12-02. 2022-01-17.
- Web site: Middle Belt Groups allege Fulani herdsmen have taken over their ancestral homelands . Vanguard News . 2016-05-03 . 2022-01-16.
- Web site: Madugu . Ralph . We Are Coming to Recover our Lands – Autochthonous Communities to Land Grabbers . 2021-08-26 . 2022-01-16.
- Book: Blench, Roger. An Atlas of Nigerian Languages. Kay Williamson Educational Foundation. 2020. Cambridge.
- Web site: Language should be responsible tool for nationalism-Mike Rueck. . Enduring News . 2019-12-03 . 2022-01-16.
- 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.
- Research on the Plateau languages of Central Nigeria. Roger. Blench. 93. Hamburg University Press. 2020-12-31. 10.15460/auue.2021.93.1.209. Afrika und Übersee. 3–44. 2024-04-07 .
- 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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