BBC Pidgin: The Potential for a Metastasizing Cancer on the Igbo Language

BBC Pidgin: The Potential for a Metastasizing Cancer on the Igbo Language

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has announced the creation of a BBC News service in the Pidgin Language. Coming long after the creation of BBC Hausa and BBC Yoruba, it seems evident that all the BBC knows to be key languages in Nigeria is Hausa, Yoruba, and Pidgin. Hence, we have BBC Hausa,  BBC Yoruba,  and now BBC Pidgin. Where is BBC Igbo?  We have already started hearing some Igbo kids in Owerri speak English with peculiar Yoruba linguistic difficulties, e.g., saying 'ome' when they mean 'home, the missing "h" problem. A Part of the destructive power of Pidgin on other languages lies in Pidgin's lack of a proper and formal written form, structure, and lexis. 

BBC Pidgin Service

Thus, it was absurd for Mr. Peter Okechukwu in that video to speak of 'Pidgin Grammar,' a rank oxymoron. Mr. Okechukwu is leaving no doubt that when his Pidgin Grammar is fully implemented,  the Pidgin word for Police will be the Yoruba term 'Olokpaa,' 'Olokwaa' in Igbo.

The Igbo Language is in danger of extinction if these not-so-hidden attacks against it are not checked.

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