Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Explore how the vibrant film industry of Kano, known as Kannywood, serves as the primary engine for standardizing and spreading the Hausa language across West Africa. This article analyzes the…
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…