I found this post on a blog talking about how in Nigeria, though Pidgin is used in setting ranging from friends talking to politicians giving speeches, and is the genuine lingua franca of the country it still has the stigma of being the language of the uneducated since it isn't 'proper' English, and a campagin promoting respecting it in Nigeria.
This sounds like something that probably happens a lot in nations where there are prevelant dialects that have clear deviations from 'standard' English, but are widly used in everything but writing in school.
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