The Novel That Made Pidgin Literature
When Amos Tutuola published *The Palm-Wine Drinkard* in 1952, its "broken" English was celebrated abroad but scorned as a national embarrassment in his native Nigeria. This is the story of…
Unlocking the Universe of Languages
When Amos Tutuola published *The Palm-Wine Drinkard* in 1952, its "broken" English was celebrated abroad but scorned as a national embarrassment in his native Nigeria. This is the story of…
Often dismissed as "broken English", Nigerian Pidgin is in fact a dynamic creole language spoken by over 75 million people. Far from being a mere dialect, it is the cultural…