The cheering crowd in southwestern Nigeria is thousands strong but when the performer on stage in a yellow catsuit and glittering cape beats out eerie rhythms on a steel drum, they hush. Then as Helen Epega begins to sing, her powerful voice filling the air at the outdoor auditorium, the crowd roars. The musical genre may be unusual in this part of the world but people understand it --- Epega is singing what she and organizers of the festival in which she is participating say is the world's first opera in Pidgin. Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation, with many ethnic groups and hundreds of languages. But Nigerian Pidgin --- a lingua franca sometimes referred...
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