e/Onitsha Market Literature

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has glosseng: Onitsha Market Literature refers to a number of pamphlets, books and other publications sold at the Onitsha Market in Nigeria in the 1950s and 1960s. Much of it was writted in pidgin and creole varieties of English. This form of literature is now interesting to researchers as a secondary source of information about social conditions of the time; general readers can appreciate it for its creative use of colorful, non-standard English as well as its often racy plotlines.
lexicalizationeng: Onitsha market literature
instance of(noun) a small book usually having a paper cover
brochure, leaflet, booklet, pamphlet, folder

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