麻豆社

Anyone who's visited Nigeria will know that it's a cultural melting pot - 167 million people at the last count, and over 200 languages spoken. But of those, some are thought to be in danger of decline - including one of the most celebrated. The Igbo people are Nigeria's third biggest ethnic group, and according to UNESCO, their mother tongue could even be extinct by mid-century. Could it be? The 麻豆社's Nkem Ifejika, whose own family is Igbo, has been to Nigeria to find out.