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Subject: Chinua Achebe born (16/11/1930)
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Nigerian novelist, poet and critic. Lived until 2013.

He wrote in English.

"This English, then, which I am using, has witnessed peculiar events in 
my land that it has never experienced anywhere else. The English 
language has never been close to Igbo, Hausa, or Yoruba anywhere else in 
the world. So it has to be different, because these languages and their 
environment are not inert. They are active, and they are acting on this 
language which has invaded their territory."

So Nigerian English. But a very educated NigEng, not Fela Kuti's Pidgin 
or even Amos Tutuola's indigenized colloquial.

"...those who can do the work of extending the frontiers of English so 
as to accommodate African thought patterns must do it through their 
mastery of English and not out of innocence."

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe