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Why did radical Nigerian playwrights use pidgin in their plays?
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Wole Soyinka.
Radical Nigerian playwrights utilized pidgin in their works because it served as a language of mass communication, making their plays accessible to a much wider audience beyond the educated elite. By employing this common language, these playwrights were able to effectively convey their radical political messages and social critiques to the broader public.1