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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica 20 Aug 2017

    🙌🏿 "We don land gidigba!' (We've finally arrived!)🎉 Meet the team behind BBC Pidgin, launching tomorrow https://www.bbc.com/pidgin  for morepic.twitter.com/TAzMmcV8nq

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      2. Latifatsworld‏ @Latifatsworld 20 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Pidgin English is the uniting language btw Anglophone & francophone African Countries...So a beautiful creative move. Thank u BBC Pidgin

        2 replies 11 retweets 32 likes
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      1. bruno‏ @NaitwaBruno 20 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        hope it will come with expressions that make pidgin colourful TV Anchor:In today's news ade seh you know Oga Trump heeeee" next storypic.twitter.com/hOLyahQndo

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      1. BEEGEAGLES BLOG‏ @beegeaglesblog 21 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        BBC,una welkom. Man don go look una website sha & e be laik say na Oyibo una take write dat wan. De word dem resembul English pass we Pidgin

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      2. necespanya‏ @necespanya 20 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @BBCWorld

        This is a joke right ? If not its a waste of license payers money.

        5 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      3. MsKadyCee  🎈‏ @MsKadyCee 20 Aug 2017
        Replying to @necespanya @BBCAfrica @BBCWorld

        Wow there are Trumpkins in the UK too! 🙄

        1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
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      1. JDegarson‏ @johndegarson 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @Luvvie

        when you don't need the translation captions to understandpic.twitter.com/KSb81jUVLa

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      2. Gimbia Woji‏ @Gimbyah 21 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        This is great news but NO! Pidgin is already in Africa,dont start by saying it is coming 2 Africa.Its 2017 no more wit ur discovering things

        1 reply 3 retweets 6 likes
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      1. Yemi Osinubi‏ @RealOsinos 21 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @afalli

        Una welcome @BBCAfrica , noting better pass dan say person hear tory for him own language. May your town crier reach every village square!

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      1. ella‏ @ipeetl 20 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        No wahala..... Even us in Uganda we go watch ooooo

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      2. Westengland‏ @Westengland 21 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @wood5y

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      3. Steve Woods‏ @wood5y 21 Aug 2017
        Replying to @Westengland @BBCAfrica

        thanks!

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      2. Olajide Omilana‏ @Olajidemvp 20 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Sweet ! Make sure say na Warri pidgin .

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Ken Chumah‏ @kenchumah25 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @Olajidemvp @BBCAfrica

        ...it is not a learned language. Warri pidgin dey for a different level & it is always evolving. Pidgin is a first language for Deltans.

        0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
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      1.  🇬🇭 🔥Love & laughter 😃 🇬🇭‏ @faroukand84 21 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @ekowdb

        For me, it's one big move for decolonization; we are taking what the west gave us and making it our own. Kudos AFRICA

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      2. YveAE‏ @YvonneEtah 21 Aug 2017
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @BBCRosAtkins

        I like the initiative but that's just Nigerian pidgin only. Every part of Africa speaks pidgin in a unique way. S please expand your scope.

        2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
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