09 Mar Nigerian Helen Parker-Jayne Isisbor Spawned the First Pidgin Opera.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nigerian Helen Parker-Jayne Isisbor’s quest to champion her often-derided west African vernacular has spawned the first pidgin opera. This is opera, but not as you know it: it is the world’s first opera in pidgin, the language spoken by some 50 million people in West Africa’s...