Nigerian English hits different. With Pidgin as the lingua franca of the streets, expressions like "wahala", "japa" and "no wahala" have gone global through Nollywood and Afrobeats. Over 80 million speakers make this one of the most vibrant and fast-growing varieties of English on the planet.
Janna
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United States
"UNC. Basically, it's short for uncle. It's used for someone who's older. It's mainly used by, let's say, late teens. So people that are like 16, 17, 18, 19 as well. Just to refer to anyone older than them, even if they're referring to someone who's like 21 or 22. Literally anyone older than you, by just a couple of years, can be an UNC. An example would be, what do you mean you don't have a Timothee Chalamet on your For You page? You're such an UNC."
Opp
"Do not tell him the plan, he sits with the opps at lunch."
Unc
"Unc is on the dance floor again, somebody film this."
Soft life
"I quit the second job, I am choosing the soft life from now on."
Vexed
"I am so vexed right now, he left me waiting an hour and then texts to say he is not even coming."
Abeg
"Abeg, stop dulling me with this long story, just tell me if you fit come to the owambe on Saturday or not, the jollof no dey wait"