It became difficult to revert to my old habits of thinking and writing. At the time, I was reading Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine.Įverything changed when I started reading African books. I would also contest the usage of certain words, such as when I argued with my brother that his use of the word ‘flushing’ was wrong because ‘Flushing’ is a place in New York. In Nigeria, secondary school students wear uniforms and do not leave class unless the teacher does. In some books I read, high school students didn’t wear uniforms and left the class immediately after the bell rang. Until I started reading books by African authors, there were things I mixed-up, such as using ‘high school’ when I really meant ‘secondary school’ in my writing. This tendency to over explain was influenced by the kinds of books I read growing up. I would then also launch into a long-winded explanation of what eba was. If I had to use a word like garri, I would spend the next few sentences explaining that garri is a food product extracted from cassava and either eaten plain with cold water or prepared with hot water to make eba. I struggled through the process of explaining in English what I could easily have expressed in Yoruba. When I first started writing, I avoided allowing my indigenous language, Yoruba, to ‘interfere’ in my work. I now know that I have a responsibility to write in my most authentic voice.’ ‘But everything changed after I read Vagabonds!. 1., MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 143-160.‘My fear of writing in pidgin English stemmed majorly from an anxiety that foreign readers might not understand my work,’ the author writes. Ogunmodimu Morakinyo, 2014, “Plural Marking Strategies in Nigerian Pidgin English (Naija)”, in: Fleur de Ling: Tulane University Working Papers, vol. Mazzoli Maria, 2013, Copulas in Nigerian Pidgin English, PhD dissertation. Herskovits Melville J., Herskovits Frances S., 1931, “Tales in Pidgin English from Nigeria”, The Journal of American Folklore, vol.44, no. An NLA Harmonized Writing System for Naijá Publications. The emergence of Naija (Nigerian Pidgin) as a 100 million speaker African language, Įsizimetor David, Ofulue Christine, 2010, Guide to Standard Naijá Orthography. Short Stories in Nigerian Pidgin English, Leipzig: ATHENA VerlagĬaron Bernard, Egbokhare F, 2018, From Stigma to Coolness. Ogboro-Cole Oluwagbemiga, 2009, Mami Wata. is aware of significance the culture of West African countries have for the culture of the world (K_K07)įaraclas Nicholas, 1996, Nigerian Pidgin English, Routledgeįrąckiewicz Olga, 2018, We sabi am, Zakłady Graficzne Uniwersytetu Warszwskiego cooperate and work in a group as well as forge relationships and build social relations (K_K02) can translate literary texts and writings from Nigerian Pidgin English into Polish (K_U14) read, analyze and interpret journalistic texts, literary and culture texts in Nigerian Pidgin English and appropriately place them in their cultural context (K_U06) search for, analyze, evaluate and use information from different sources (K_U01) demonstrates basic grasp of contemporary cultural life of Nigeria (K_W16) has rudimentary knowledge of translation rules from African languages into Polish (K_W15)

is aware of the complex nature of Nigerian Pidgin English, its place and significance in the cultural and historical context of West African countries (K_W13) can name and characterize basic cultural phenomena of West African countries (K_W10)

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