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Calls to decolonise the curriculum often stall at the question of what should be taught instead. This paper proposes a framework for bringing indigenous knowledge into humanities courses without reducing it to folklore, using examples from language, history and philosophy teaching in Nigerian universities.
Chinua Achebe described his English as ‘a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit its new African surroundings’. This review reads that claim as an ethics of translation and traces its influence on later Nigerian writers and on translation studies.
Public radio stations increasingly broadcast news in Nigerian Pidgin. Combining listener surveys in Warri and Benin City with analysis of bulletin scripts, this study asks whether Pidgin news reaches audiences that English news does not. It finds that Pidgin bulletins significantly widen reach among market traders and artisans, and that listeners judge them as trustworthy as English bulletins.