Nigerian Pidgin English
Nigerian Pidgin English accepted as unofficial second language
Play videoThis article shows how Nigerian Pidgin English is up and coming as more people are starting to listen to it and learn it.
White man speaking Nigerian pidgin English
Play videoThis artifact present a white men in Nigeria bounding with Nigerian people and using a language easy for them to understand.
Nigerian Pidgin Speakers Struggle to Translate a Phrase Into "Proper English"
Play videoThis video shows speakers of Nigerian Pidgin English struggling to translate the phrase “This Ogbono soup too draw” into “proper English.” The video itself is a good example of how pidgin languages can have a majority of lexical features from one language, but cannot be directly translated due to the uniqueness of the created pidgin. The use of the phrase “proper English” in the title also shows the prescriptive ideology of language that the creator of the video possesses by labeling one way of speaking English as the “proper” way.
Pidgin English from Nigeria
Play videoA video of two Nigerian Men who explain and give example of language divergence and Pidgin English.
Nigerian Pidgin English accepted as unofficial second language
Play videoA news story with examples of spoken NPE as well as cultural context for the shift in perception of the Creole Language.
Nigerian Opera Sung in Pidgin English
An article describing an opera written and sung by a speaker of Nigerian Pidgin English. [Published on 08-14-2015]