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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
The fact that it's not the mother tongue of the local population (vs South Africa which at least has a native-born Anglo minority), that there are much more commonly spoken languages, and that only about half of the Nigerian population is even able to speak English. It's the language of business & government but not necessarily of the people.
I agree that these things are not so clear cut though and that the presence of English manifests itself in different ways - and in the case of multi-lingual Nigeria it seems to exist in particularly unique space. That said, from my knowledge, Johannesburg is still English-speaking to an extent that Lagos is not.
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This seems a bit cherry-picked. Nigeria has a higher percentage of English speakers than South Africa. I see no reason why we would assume that most people living in Johannesburg speak English and not the same of Lagos. It is far more likely that most people in Lagos speak English, and people who don't speak English live in rural villages.