So Reason Am! is an audio service which explains complex news and current affairs in Pidgin English for the benefit of African audiences. In Pidgin English, when you say вЂњreason am,вЂќ you are trying to argue a point, and so you ask others to reason with you, along the same lines. The whole shebang is on You recently launched a new project called Reason Am! What exactly is Reason Am! Currently I mainly ghost-write for corporate clients, blog on the side for SabiNews and run Reason Am!, which is fast turning out to be a full-time gig. I left South Africa to settle in London in 2011 and have since had a brief stint with the Financial Times, notably on its BeyondBrics desk. My work there brought the 2010 Niall Fitzgerald Prize, which meant Reuters sponsored me for a postgrad degree and an internship in South Africa. I grew up in Lagos and started out writing columns for Thisday newspapers, moved to GTBank working in Corporate Communications and then ended up at NEXT newspapers, all in Nigeria. But a longer version is that I am a Nigerian journalist, writer and producer based in London. In one sentence? I am a journalist whose father was a journalist and killed for being a journalist. So it pleases me to no end to shareВ this amazing but underrated African language with you. It is my first language! I didnвЂ™t begin speaking standard Nigerian English until I was about seven. Pidgin English is dear to my heart for personal reasons. She also dishes out on Reason Am!, a brand new project taking the production and consumption of pidgin english media to new heights. Nigerian journalist,В Ruona Agbroko-Meyer, schools us on this versatile and beautiful urban language. Today, the language has evolved into a complex linguistic phenomenon and is widely spoken in the major English-speaking West African cities. It came into being on the coast of Guinea in the 17th century when British merchantsВ succeeded the Dutch as the prominent seafaring group stationed on the West African Coast.

In official linguistic circles, the language is called West African Pidgin English.

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