Take this example. A month ago, a video featuring a half-naked Kenyan girl dancing seductively for a man with a heavy Nigerian accent (who could only be heard in the background) went viral.

It is these peculiarities that students of Ms Stephens want to erase. "When I speak [with a] Nigerian accent there is a gap, there is a vacuum… I need to improve, upgrade, by learning the ...

According to CNN, the Nigerian accent is one of the sexiest in the world. It was described as the “hint of wilful naiveté, ...

What stopped her from toning down her accent, Odudu explained, was largely down to her mother. “My mum, who’s Nigerian, has been in the UK longer than she had been in Nigeria, and let me tell ...