Enobong Ebebe Ukpanah was born into the Nsekhe community in Ukanafun Local Government Area, Cross River State (now Akwa Ibom State), Nigeria, in 1933. He studied at the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, (1958-1959), transferring to a B.Arch course at Ahmadu Bello University, at Zaira, in 1961, and graduating in 1964. The following year he is noted as being employed by the Architecture Office, within the Ministry of Works at Enugu, before being dispatched to London to attend the 1966-67 postgraduate Educational Building course run by the Architectural Association’s Department of Development and Tropical Studies. Ukpanah successfully completed the course and was awarded the AA postgraduate Certificate in Tropical Architecture in July 1967. On his return to Nigeria he rejoined the Ministry of Works, based initially at Ikot Ekpene, from 1967-1968, and then at Calabar. In 1970, after becoming a fully registered architect with the Architects Registration Council of Nigeria, he established his own practice of Ukpanah & Ukpanah, operating from Kent Street, Calabar. The practice appears to have been of major local significance but details of their work are not yet known to us.
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