Nothing unites a nation like a shared indigenous language.

The recent Oscar embarrassment in which major Nigerian film, Lionheart, was disqualified on language grounds - for containing too much English against the rules of the category, has led many to question the wisdom behind our continued use of this colonial language as our national tongue.

The Oscar academy was giving us a kick up the butt, that we must become original, and start to shed our colonial impositions.

To be fair, we are making progress in that regard. Nollywood has replaced foreign films in our country, just as Afrobeats have seriously challenged US R&B and Hip Hop.

The next level should be a new national language that combines Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa-Fulani, and elements from EVERY other language in the country.

We can establish a panel of Nigerian linguists and related experts to conduct this task.

We've heard the term 'Wazobia' for many years.

It is now time to actualise the concept.

that will be nice, wazobia language. but how are we going to combine 3 language to become one, i thinj this will be a bit hard. even pidgin english no perfect...

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Akamariner:
that will be nice, wazobia language. but how are we going to combine 3 language to become one, i think this will be a bit hard. even pidgin english no perfect...

It may be hard, but it's not impossible. Everything worthwhile is 'hard' to accomplish.

we should just remove English as our official language but on the second look it would be hard

Rosskiki:
Nothing unites a nation like a shared indigenous language.

The recent Oscar embarrassment in which major Nigerian film, Lionheart, was disqualified on language grounds - for containing too much English against the rules of the category, has led many to question the wisdom behind our continued use of this colonial language as our national tongue.

The Oscar academy was giving us a kick up the butt, that we must become original, and start to shed our colonial impositions.

To be fair, we are making progress in that regard. Nollywood has replaced foreign films in our country, just as Afrobeats have seriously challenged US R&B and Hip Hop.

The next level should be a new national language that combines Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa-Fulani, and elements from EVERY other language in the country.

We can establish a panel of Nigerian linguists and related experts to conduct this task.

We've heard the term 'Wazobia' for many years.

It is now time to actualise the concept.

It has already been done by Alex Igbineweka, since the 1960s/1970s. He combined Nigeria's languages and some other West African languages to form Guosa.

You can view his website here: http://www.guosa-language-tv.com/ and his youtube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apEbZ3Vnaeg&feature=emb_title

cia

Pidgin english should be standardized and Linguistics should come up with system and structure to make it a formal language

It will be a huge leap for our unity but it's an almost impossible task

How are u going to combine the languages?
You can start working on that. When u r done, show us!

Rosskiki:
Nothing unites a nation like a shared indigenous language.

The recent Oscar embarrassment in which major Nigerian film, Lionheart, was disqualified on language grounds - for containing too much English against the rules of the category, has led many to question the wisdom behind our continued use of this colonial language as our national tongue.

The Oscar academy was giving us a kick up the butt, that we must become original, and start to shed our colonial impositions.

To be fair, we are making progress in that regard. Nollywood has replaced foreign films in our country, just as Afrobeats have seriously challenged US R&B and Hip Hop.

The next level should be a new national language that combines Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa-Fulani, and elements from EVERY other language in the country.

We can establish a panel of Nigerian linguists and related experts to conduct this task.

We've heard the term 'Wazobia' for many years.

It is now time to actualise the concept.

Such a project is dead on arrival

gidgiddy:


Such a project is dead on arrival

Totally dead on arrival. Ordinary pidgin which is organic, majority of the Hausas refused to learn; is it an inorganic language that they'll learn. OP doesn't know Nigeria. This Nigeria is a failed experiment.

Why not promote pidgin?

The three major tribes and arrogance. What about the other tribes?