Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Naija: A language of the future -- Chapter 2 Nigerian Pidgin: Changes in prestige and function in non-Anglophone diasporic contexts -- Chapter 3 The accidental lingua franca: The paradox of the ascendancy of Nigerian Pidgin in Nigeria -- Chapter 4 Nigerian Pidgin, identity and national re-invention in Naija stand-up comedy -- Chapter 5 Nigerian Pidgin in authenticating immigrant identities -- Chapter 6 Towards a working orthography of Nigerian Pidgin -- Chapter 7 Morpho-syntactic features of Nigerian Pidgin on Radio programmes rendered in Naija -- Chapter 8 Emphasis, focalization and topicalization in Nigerian Pidgin -- Chapter 9 Metalanguage of football commentary in Nigerian Pidgin -- Chapter 10 A social semiotic investigation of Nigerian Pidgin in select Nigerian church posters -- Chapter 11 Nigerian Pidgin as national language: Prospects and challenges -- Chapter 12 Non-state actors, language practices, language policy and Nigerian Pidgin promotion -- Index