Pidgin
“Song Queen”: Helen Epega’s Pidgin Opera Connects Audiences To Africa; Here Is How
Helen Epega, a Nigerian-British performance artiste, vocalist, and composer, wrote the first pidgin English (an African language spoken in Nigeria and other parts of the region) opera in history. In 2008, she coordinated the first-ever “hang flash gig” at the Lovebox event in London, which was broadcast on UK’s Channel 4. Helen Epega’s avant-garde opera,…
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Meet Helen Epega, a Nigerian-British self-taught artist behind the world’s first Pidgin opera
Ordinarily, pidgin, a creole language or simply put, a vernacular spoken across parts of West...
