Fioupou discusses the different translational strategies of rendering two plays by Wole Soyinka (The Road and King Baabu) and the novel Sozaboy: A Novel Written in Rotten English by Ken Saro-Wiwa into French. Her starting-point was that this translation had to subvert a colonial French known as langage tirailleur that had popularised racist expressions such as "Y'a bon … Banania." What the Nigerian works have in common is their strong and active presence of multicultural and multilingual varieties, Nigerian Pidgin English, and colloquialisms of a most innovative kind — and the presence in them of the already-translated and the already-writing-back. The major problem for the translators was where to find the tool with which to give the works an acceptable French voice and syntax.