Among the diverse playlist, Kante stood out, not just for its infectious rhythm but as he said: “It also features lyrics in Pidgin, which I love in all its forms, and in which I attempted to make a speech when I last visited Nigeria.” The King said this in a recorded address from Buckingham Palace.
That visit, in November 2018, saw the monarch — then the Prince of Wales — engage with Nigeria’s cultural and political elite in Lagos in partly Pidgin, a lingua franca widely spoken across West and Central Africa.
