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Journal of the Nigeria English Studies Association JNESA 13 2 CATEGORISING VARIETIES OF NIGERIAN ENGLISH A SOCIO-PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE Tajudeen Yaqub Surakat Department of English Literary Studies Ahmadu Bello University Zaria Abstract The categorization of the various types of English in use in Nigeria can be traced back to the study by Brosnaham 1958 which focused on Southern Nigerian varieties. Propose a more holistic approach which accommodates relevant socio- and psycholinguistic...

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I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call “the danger of the single story.” I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. My mother says that I started reading at the age of two, although I think four is probably close to the truth. So I was an early reader, and what I read were British and American children's books. I was also an early writer, and when I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil with crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, (Laughter) and they talked a lot about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out. (Laughter) Now, this despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria. I had never been outside Nigeria. We didn't have snow, we ate mangoes, and we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to. My characters also drank a lot of ginger beer, because the characters in the British books I read drank ginger beer. Never mind that I had no idea what ginger beer was. (Laughter) And for many years afterwards, I would have a desperate desire to taste ginger beer. But that is another story. What this demonstrates, I think, is how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, particularly as children. Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify. Now, things changed when I discovered African books. There weren't many of them available, and they weren't quite as easy to find as the foreign books. But because of writers like China Achebe and Camera Late, I went through a mental shift in my perception of literature. I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature. I started to write about things I recognized. Now, I loved those American and British books I read. They stirred my imagination. They opened up new worlds for me. But the unintended consequence was that I did not know that people like me could exist in literature. So what the discovery of African writers did for me was this: It saved me from having a single story of what books are. I come from a conventional, middle-class Nigerian family. My father was a professor. My mother was an administrator. And so we had, as was the norm, live-in domestic help, who would often come from nearby rural villages. So, the year I turned eight, we got a new house boy. His name was FIDE. The only thing my mother told us about him was that his family was very poor. My mother sent yams and rice, and our old clothes, to his family. And when I didn't finish my dinner, my mother would say, “Finish your food! Don't you know? People like FIDE's family have...

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What is varieties of nigerian english?

Varieties of Nigerian English refer to the different dialects and forms of English that are spoken in Nigeria, influenced by local languages, culture, and social context.

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There is no formal filing requirement for varieties of Nigerian English; it is a linguistic concept rather than a legal or administrative document.

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As there are no formal documents to fill out for varieties of Nigerian English, individuals engage with the language in everyday communication rather than completing forms.

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The purpose of varieties of Nigerian English is to enable effective communication among speakers in Nigeria, expressing local culture, identity, and nuances in meaning.

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