{"id":177744,"date":"2024-07-04T07:32:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T07:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/?p=177744"},"modified":"2024-07-04T07:32:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T07:32:43","slug":"how-i-shockingly-discovered-kenyans-dont-understand-pidgin-english-simi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/2024\/07\/04\/how-i-shockingly-discovered-kenyans-dont-understand-pidgin-english-simi\/","title":{"rendered":"How I shockingly discovered Kenyans don\u2019t understand Pidgin English \u2013 Simi"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><strong>Simi has recalled a culture shock she experienced some years ago in Kenya.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Being an African country, the songstress assumed they\u2019d understand and be familiar with the Pidgin English but to her amazement, that wasn\u2019t the case.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Afrobeats singer Simi Kosoko has expressed shock that Kenyans don&#8217;t understand pidgin English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She stated this while sharing her fascinating experience about Kenya on the 90\u2019s Baby Show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Simi revealed that during a trip to Kenya, she was surprised to discover that not all Africans speak \u2018Pidgin English\u2019, a dialect she assumed was universally understood across the continent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While collaborating with a Kenyan artist, she was asked to translate her pidgin lyrics, leaving her taken aback. Simi recounted:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cI went to Kenya years ago, and we were supposed to do a remix of my song with a Kenyan artist, and then there is a lot of pidgin in the song. They asked me to write my lyrics down and then ask, \u2018Can you translate?\u2019 and I go, \u2018What the fuck do you mean to translate? It\u2019s English. It\u2019s pidgin, but it\u2019s English.&#8217;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This encounter was a culture shock for Simi, as she had assumed Pidgin English was a common language among Africans. She humorously recalled asking herself if the whole of Africa wasn\u2019t the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_176859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176859\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/Screenshot_20240626-150000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/Screenshot_20240626-150000.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/Screenshot_20240626-150000-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-176859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Simi continued:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cBefore then, I had thought that everybody in Africa could speak pidgin the way we speak pidgin, so that was a culture shock for me. I thought these were our people; are we not the same?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/2024\/05\/09\/she-funny-pass-ay-netizens-tease-as-simis-daughter-cracks-hilarious-joke-video\/\">Simi also shared that her 4-year-old daughter, Adejare, has<\/a> picked up some pidgin from her and her husband, Adekunle Gold, and often uses it to ask questions or engage in playful conversations. Simi added:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cMy daughter even started speaking pidgin by herself because we speak it around her, to our friends. So sometimes she would be like, \u2018Wetin you do o\u2019 and I love that because you need to have a gossip language around people<\/span><span class=\"s1\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simi has recalled a culture shock she experienced some years ago in Kenya. 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