The origins and development of Pidgin in Nigeria are exhaustively
examined. The study's perspectives are historical, theoretical,
ontological and sociological. Nigerian Pidgin is identified as a
language in its own right, with all the characteristics and
potentialities of a natural language, its comparatively recent origins
nothwithstanding. The authors treat the structure of the language as
such; and make the distinctions between Nigerian Pidgine and a range of
pidgin-like forms in Nigeria. Professor Ben Elugbe and Dr. Augusts
Omamor are both linguistics of repute, and teach in the Department of
Linguistics and African Languages at the University of Ibadan.