BBC to launch Pidgin service

The BBC has announced it will be launching a digital service in Pidgin and Yoruba in Nigeria, Africa's most populous state. "Pidgin is a popular language among young people in Nigeria and across West Africa," said Liliane Landor, controller of languages at the World Service. The BBC will also launch a TV service in Somali, and radio and digital services for Ethiopia and Eritrea, said BBC Africa editor Solomon Mugera. Details of which languages the BBC will broadcast in to Ethiopia and Eritrea will be announced later. The announcement comes after the UK government agreed to invest around $128m (£85m) a year in enhancing BBC services around the world.


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Very Good. When are they launching the Heebow service. Cos i no wan hear cry of marginalisation from the black jews o!

OK OK ok

What of igbo?

mrvitalis:
What of igbo?

Uwa mmebi

mrvitalis:
What of igbo?

inconsequential?

Philistine:
Very Good. When are they launching the Heebow service. Cos i no wan hear cry of marginalisation from the black jews o!

na true sha.

But wait o! I thought DSTV announced that there will be AFricaMagic Igbo by april this year.

Where is it?

mrvitalis:
What of igbo?

We are talking about languages here. Many of you speaks Hausa and Yoruba better than your language anyway. Right now the pidgin English is much more important than your inconsequential language.

Idrismusty97:
We are talking about languages here.

Ibo no be language?

Chai! This new level of marginalization go make them threaten to break up from Africa

Other langauges would follow.

Hausa don dey, now yoruba and pidgin don join, wait wat abt ibo?..hehehehe even bbc no won gt anytin to do with d curse erosion zone, nd wait how many people dey watch dat mumu channel call africamagic ibo? No viewers dem won remov am sef, nothin abt ibo dey good

Omo yoruba ni mi oooo........................ Swagger.

mrvitalis:
What of igbo?

Radio Biafra

EdCure:

Ibo no be language? Chai!!!

It may sound like a fairy tale but some decades ago, stories were told about school children being slammed with all manner of punishment for speaking Igbo language in the classroom!
Apart from this, any student that offered Igbo language in school certificate examination was laughed to scorn. With this development, the speaking and writing of Igbo language started a slow but steady decline. Apart from the school environment, the language equally suffered serious bashing in other sectors of the Igbo nation.
Back in individual Igbo homes, parents no longer told the scintillating, entertaining and educative folktales to their children. Several families no longer find it fashionable to talk to their children in Igbo language or teach them Igbo idioms and proverbs.
Every man, irrespective of his relationship to an Igbo child of this day and age, has since transformed into an “uncle”. For the women, they turned “aunties”. This was what parents sadly taught their children. The delicious and nutritious local delicacies slowly but steadily gave way to canned and continental foods. Local music and dance steps gave way to hip-hop, reggae, rock, blues and jazz tunes.
The sad thing is that Ndigbo have names for all manner of relations but all these have sadly been lost in the unholy attempt to be more English than the English nationals. The downward slide of the language continued over the years unabated. A recent alarm raised over the imminent extinction of Igbo language has however reawakened the consciousness of a number persons and organisations. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/saving-igbo-language-from-extinction/

Chanchit:
Other langauges would follow.

So Yoruba is a pacesetting language?

Idrismusty97:
We are talking about languages here. Many of you speaks Hausa and Yoruba better than your language anyway. Right now the pidgin English is much important than your inconsequential language.

Just wait and watch the way they will dance to Bush House like cannibals, with cries of marginalisation like bush babies.

That was how they danced to Multichoice.

I love this. E ku orire, gbogbo omo kaaro ojire. Ajosewa ko ni baje.

Chanchit:
Other langauges would follow.

Console yourself with that

IlekeHD:


So Yoruba is a pacesetting language?

No be me talk am o
As the thing no involve Biafra, I need take chill pill.

mrvitalis:
What of igbo?

ibo get radio Biafra na

Why is BBC marginalising the heeebos? There is BBC Hausa service, and now we'v got BBC Pidgin and Yoruba. What about BBC Heeebo ? This is marginalisation and discrimination

contactlenz:
ibo get radio Biafra

FIXED

Did Igbo people collectively fuck you guys and neglect to call all of you back? Because that's how you guys act. On every thread! Lol. It's like an achievement isn't an achievement unless you can somehow link it back to Igbo people. What kind of insecurity? Even with a petty BBC service broadcasting in all kinds of war zones? What a shame.

Watch as the Biafrans would cry marginalisation and threaten to leave Africa

Hee.Gbo Kwenu!!!

Some people would soon cry marginalization.

ezeagu:
Did Igbo people collectively fuck you guys and neglect to call all of you back? Because that's how you guys act. On every thread! Lol. It's like an achievement isn't an achievement unless you can somehow link it back to Igbo people. What kind of insecurity? Even with a petty BBC service broadcasting in all kinds of war zones? What a shame.

That is what happens to a cry cry baby.

Everybody gets a chance to mock such emotional wailers.

They cried about MNET not having an Igbo TV station, while in another breath they claimed that Africa Magic actually shows more of Nollywood movies which they dominate.
They cried about BBC having Hausa language station, forgetting that Hausa like Yoruba is an international language not limited to just a tribe in Nigeria, but an international tribe across West Africa. They even claimed the legitimate and civil toned BBC Hausa service is enough justification to have a pirate radio that advocates for national terrorism and anarchy.

They are now crying over infrastructural development in the East, while also claiming that the Eastern region is more developed than the North and the West.

Do you now understand why emotional cry babies are always mocked with their own duplicitous wailings?

It won't be long before they surprise you with cries of this marginalization on this very plan by the BBC. But like the Igbo that you are, you have not surprised us either. BBC is petty now until they have an Igbo language station, right?

The same way the Nobel prize in Literature is an irrelevant award as already alluded to by many Igbos here, until an Igbo finally win it, right?

Very predictable clansmen.

StOla:


That is what happens to a cry cry baby.

Everybody gets a chance to mock such emotional wailers.

Wow, cry babies have all you attention, or are you just very insecure chasing Biafrans all over the internet?

BBC sef dey do partiality, what about the two other major Niqerian lanquaqes