From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an seachtú lá déag de mí na Samhain, scríobh Ross Clark:   
      
    > Nigerian novelist, poet and critic. Lived until 2013.   
    >   
    > He wrote in English.   
      
   His “Things Fall Apart” was on the local English secondary school syllabus   
   here   
   in the 90s, a good book.   
      
    > "This English, then, which I am using, has witnessed peculiar events in my   
   land   
    > that it has never experienced anywhere else. The English language has never   
    > been close to Igbo, Hausa, or Yoruba anywhere else in the world. So it has   
   to   
    > be different, because these languages and their environment are not inert.   
   They   
    > are active, and they are acting on this language which has invaded their   
    > territory."   
    >   
    > So Nigerian English. But a very educated NigEng, not Fela Kuti's Pidgin or   
   even   
    > Amos Tutuola's indigenized colloquial.   
    >   
    > "...those who can do the work of extending the frontiers of English so as to   
    > accommodate African thought patterns must do it through their mastery of   
    > English and not out of innocence."   
    >   
    >  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe   
      
   We’ve had a certain amount of Nigerian immigration here in Ireland; most of   
   the   
   Nigerians I’ve known have been doctors, but there was plenty of less-educated   
   immigration that has died off as Ireland became more credentialist. I don’t   
   think I ever heard one of my doctor colleague speak a non-English language on a   
   personal call, in contrast to, e.g. the Pakistanis and the Arabs.   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)