This post by Max Buckley – "The Rise of Nigerian English and the Evolution of Language 🇳🇬" – has something for you whether you work in the ML/AI/NLP space, or you're a student of languages, or you're a student of history:

I happen to be all three. And I've spent a lot of time over the years getting computers to parse and handle text. ("Understand" goes too far, so I'll stick with "parse.") I've both read and written about the impact humans and AI have on each other. Especially when it comes to building training datasets.

And I have to say, I didn't expect this connection. I should have, but I didn't.

Fascinating read.