Last night, I happened on an interview on BBC NEWS Channel. The interviewee was a grizzled, scholarly-looking, middle-aged man of African extraction - I mean he was African from all appearances. He was commenting on the riot in Jos. The man’s accent was at first nondescript. If he was a Nigerian, then he must have been living outside the country for a considerable while, so long for his voice to have taken on a cosmopolitan timbre, the sort of inflection Wole Soyinka could easily assume on BBC or CNN.
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