Profile for Golden Richard Ekpo

Golden Richard Ekpo, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Uyo, Nigeria. She has a B.A in Linguistics and M.A in Computational Language Documentation from the University of Uyo and a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the University of London, United Kingdom. Golden has been actively involved in the documentation of smaller known languages in Akwa Ibom State, especially the dialects of Ọrọ. She is also the editor of the recently approved Ọrọ orthography.  Some of her works include language use and multilingualism in the Ọrọ speech community. She is married to Dr. Richard Ekpo and they have children together.