The Managing Director of CEOAfrica, Prince Cletus Illobanafor has arrived in Abidjan, Cote d';ivoire for the workshop for demographers and cartographers for the linguistic atlas of Africa.

The workshop which is scheduled to hold between October 30th to November 1st, is organized by the African Academy of Languages, ACALAN in conjunction with the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS.

The aim of the linguistic atlas project is to produce precise information on the number of languages spoken in the different regions of Africa, their interrelations and dialectical variations, which can inform corpus and status planning for multilingual education.

Those expected to attend the workshop include: Cartographers, some statisticians and selected researchers from the fifteen Member States of ECOWAS and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania; a representative of the Regional Economic Community (ECOWAS) a representative of the Department of Social Affairs of the African Union Commission; representatives of UNESCO, and university departments in the host country; members of the ACALAN Secretariat and representatives of the host country.