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 ...

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 ...