Encouraging voter registration
In his blog, Nigerian Curiosity, SolmonSydelle offers links to 4 You Tube videos that urge Nigerians to register to vote in the upcoming presidential election (they are between 7 and 9 minutes each). One of them is for English speakers, one for Hausa speakers, one for Igbo speakers, and one is in pidgin. This would be another chance to consider the difficulties democracy faces in a country so divided by language, ethnicity, and culture. (Links to the videos are contained in his blog posting.)NIGERIAN VOTER REGISTRATION VIDEOS
Voter registration begins on January 15th, 2011 and will end on the 29th of the month. The exercise will take place across the country with schools being used as locations for registering citizens. As such, the federal government announced that both private and public schools should remain on Christmas/New Year vacation until after the registration period…
And in anticipation of the voter registration exercise, a series of videos have hit the net. They were created to encourage citizens of voting age to register. The most entertaining is the Pidgin English version. Also called Broken English, Pidgin is a language spoken in Nigeria and it borrows from local Nigerian languages...
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