Truly speaking, for an average Nigerian to survive and function well in our modern and developing society, we need information. It is an established fact that every human activity involves information and communication. Without it, there will be no national development. It is the most vital factor in building or developing an organized, united and progressive nation. The nature of this project narrows our means of communication to the broadcasting and print medium of communication.Ĭommunication occupies a key position in human existence. So since communication stands as the life wire of every society, at all spares of the society educational, cultural, industrial, even at the rural levels, the farmers, headsmen traders and labourers require constant dosage of information to function optimally. Come to look at it, we shall need this pidgin English language to communicate effectively with a massive number of Nigerians who shall up till this time, do not understand good English because communication without response or feedback in the communication line or fraction simply means that communication has not taken place. Sometimes pidgin English can be mixed together with one native language examples are:Īll these idioms were used by our fathers then to make sure there was proper information dissemination. Pidgin English took a solid stand when slaves were freed in Sierraloen (Freetown), when they found themselves in Freetown and having no other language to speak than the English they know, and also considering the fact that most of them has lost their mother tongue as a result of slavery it was then, they started broking the white man’s language (English) into smaller segments in order to understand the message of one another, otherwise known as pidgin / broken English.Įxamples of pidgin English is as follows: Johnson because he understands the white man’s language, he was kept ahead of his people as a mediator, intercessor and interpreter between the two recess, and with that, his financial income was somehow above that of his people only his extravagant way of spending made him broke always. Those days, if a black man manages to understand the white man’s language, he is given a big post ahead his fellow black men for instance is the film titled “The battle of Musanga”, were the major character was “Mr.
The language pidgin English started during the colonial era, then, it was very essential for them to understand the white man’s language in order to be able to fit into the happening in the society. The coming of the white men to Africa really changed a lot of cultures, languages, norm, ethnics and non – ethics values etc in African. Pidgin English came into existence through English Language. Pidgin English came into existence as a result of the coming of the colonial masters to Africa, the highly respected philosophers – said and I quote, “No language is an Island meaning that language only came into existence through a pre – existed one.
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