@davidnjoku while I agree that the regional variety of accents in English is fascinating, this example says more about how you are not attuned to difference in languages that you don't speak. West African French sounds very different from metropolitan French, I promise you. I imagine that to a native speaker, you can pick up variety across West Africa. You certainly can across France. That you need to be attuned to notice the difference is remarkable. You can probably tell a Ghanian from a Nigerian. I cannot. To me what is also fascinating is that there is no real difference in accent between the big Australian cities. Perth and Sydney are a continent apart, have different settlement histories and are as isolated from each other as they are from Wellington, yet even Aussies tell me that the only real differences in accent in Oz are up country and metropolitan. You can pick up class, but not geography