“Wok, Wak, Wek!”—The African English Accent Showdown, By Farooq A. Kperogi
If you listen carefully to English spoken across Anglophone Africa, you’ll notice three unmistakable “accent capitals”: Nigerian, Kenyan, and Ghanaian. All other regional accents tend to branch out as derivatives or close relatives of this linguistic trinity. And nothing illustrates these fascinating differences quite like the word “work.” In Nigeria, it is pronounced emphatically as […]
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