![]() This article was originally published on March 13, 2018. Here & Now's Robin Young checks in with Adejuwon Soyinka ( editor of BBC Pidgin, about the language, its history and the new service's instant popularity. ![]() Among them Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromo and West African Pidgin. BBC News Pidgin BBC News Pidgin is an online news service in West African Pidgin English that was launched by the BBC World Service in 2017. The BBC World Service is undergoing its largest expansion since 1941, adding news in 10 new languages in Africa and Asia. In the past few months, Bilkisu Labaran has been busy planting the seed. The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC) on Monday launched the first of six African language services announced in November 2016 expansion plans. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images) This article is more than 4 years old. The Nigerian Editorial Lead, BBC, Bilkisu Labaran, speaks with AKEEM LASISI on the Pidgin English service it just initiated. There was a item about it on the Today programme the other morning, its a mashup of English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and African dialects and became the. Until a few years ago I thought that pidgin English was a meme because there are various Twitter accounts like Manchester United in Pidgin which is Man Utd news but in pidgin English. The language has shifted and evolved uninterrupted since its inception. They share their experiences with BBC Pidgin, including the various. #Bbc pidgin english tvPidgin takes inspiration from Portuguese, the first European language to reach Nigeria's shores, English, the enduring colonial-era language, as well as Jamaican patois imported by former slaves returning to the continent. BN TV This is a story of two intersex Nigerians, James Johnson and Mystique Evolving, who were born with male and female organs. In August 2017, the British media giant launched an online portal entirely in Pidgin, with text news, features and podcasts. ![]() British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) presenter Princess Igho Williams gets ready to broadcast in Pidgin in Lagos, on Aug. ![]()
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