Saturday, March 15, 2014

U.S. Ambassador Speaks in Pidgin English; Nigerians like It (VIDEO)



It's seldom a broadcast interview with a diplomat wows listeners, but a current conversation relating to the American ambassador to Nigeria, James F. Entwistle, is causing a news – and winning applause.
The praise is not really much for this content of the interview or the pressing issues the ambassador discusses. It's more for the language where he chose to state himself: pidgin English.
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Pidgin, or broken English, is the most popular lingua franca spoken throughout West Africa. The patois cuts across Nigeria, the continent's most populous nation, which will be home to a huge selection of local languages, rendering it easier for an incredible number of Nigerians from different elements of the nation to communicate.  Entwistle was recently interviewed by Nigeria's Wazobia FM, the very first radio station in Nigeria to broadcast in pidgin English. He was asked about Nigeria's controversial new anti-gay legislation and perhaps the U.S. might impose sanctions.


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