Documenting libation rituals in Kiong, South-Eastern Nigeria
  
      The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual collections with transcription and translations of endangered languages and practices. These collections are preserved and made freely available through the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR).
            The project sets out to document the language of libation rituals in Kiong, a language with less than 100 speakers in Akamkpa and Odukpani local government areas of Cross River State, Nigeria. The project focuses on the Okoyong community in Odukpani where libation ritual is still practiced as a significant form of sacred communication that is quitessential to their culture and spirituality but which is daily put out of prominence and active use. The project aims to interview, record, transcribe and annotate audio and video materials to produce archival data that will benefit the Kiong community and the enlarged scientific community.
Primary investigator: Eyo Mensah
          
                      
                  Project Details
            Location:              Nigeria,               Western Africa,               Africa
            Organiser(s):
              Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
                          Project partner(s): University of Calabar
            
            Funder(s):
              Arcadia
                          Funding received: £9,753.00
            
                          Commencement Date: 01/2008
            
                          Project Status: Active
                      
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