‘Dead Body No Dey Do Shakara’

Despite being a language spoken nationwide, Pidgin seems to have gained little attention from both established writers and the new writers who are fronting the online Nigerian literary experience. You don’ read poem before wey ’e be like say na jollof you dey chop? The thing go just dey sweet you dey go. ’e go come be like say, you no want make ’im finish. Na this kind poem Frank Aig-Imoukhuede dey write. ’im poem na confam one wey dey blow mind. ’im words sweet die. Correct metap

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