Translation Africa Blog - September 2018

West African Pidgin is Thriving

According to the BBC, who launched a radio service of English-based pidgin for West and Central Africa, a year ago – the language is “thriving”. “News Pidgin” now reaches a weekly audience of 7.5 million people in Nigeria and around the world on radio, online, Facebook and Instagram. Even though pidgin is not an official language or even recognised…