Kindil was the name the Kanuri people used for the Tuareg (i.e., Buzu) people. His mother’s prediction materialised: he and his friends were kidnapped. For months, their abductors forced them to ...

Linguist had long studied Kanuri, spoken by approximately 10 million people across Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad, but little academic works had been published on the language. Cyffer’s ...

Norbert Cyffer, who brought global attention to Nigeria’s linguistic diversity, has died aged 81. His passing raises questions about the future of African language studies in Europe.The academic ...