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Meet Helen Epega, a Nigerian-British self-taught artist behind the world’s first Pidgin opera

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 Africa, would not find itself in the architecture of opera. But Nigerian-British opera performer Helen Epega has changed the status quo, infusing Nigerian pidgin and other languages. She calls her style Pidgin Opera. Epega, who goes by the artistic name…

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