Portuguese influence contributes to why these Nigerian cities speak dope pidgin. Also called, ‘broken’, it is an English-based Creole that has been adopted as a pseudo-lingua franca or nationally ...

London-based Ruona Agbroko-Meyer is a Nigerian whose Nigerian nuances – especially her passion for the popular Pidgin English – have continued to wax stronger. She recently took that passion a step ...

“You don’t know how happy this makes me,” I wrote a colleague after she casually sent me a link to a recent news story reporting that the U.S. Census Bureau now recognizes Hawaiian Pidgin English as a ...

'Oloture' a movie on Netflix was made in Pidgin [Photo: Courtesy] Nigerian Pidgin English has been accepted as a foreign language for the Oscars, one of the most prestigious film industry awards.

Nigerian singer Simi has opened up about a culture shock she experienced in Kenya when she found out that pidgin English wasn't spoken by all Africans. The singer appeared as a guest on the recent ...

It's not often that a broadcast interview by a diplomat wows listeners, but a recent conversation involving the American ambassador to Nigeria, James F. Entwistle, is causing a buzz – and winning ...

Artist Harry Lyons drew Columbia Inn owner Tosh Kaneshiro wearing an “Ain’ no beeg t’ing” button. Kaneshiro was a Dodger fan, and the team struggled to win a World Series. In Hawaii, people from China ...

The headline on the article, published on the BBC’s website, reads like this: “Woman wan troway poo-poo, come trap for window.” The piece, written in a form of West African Pidgin English, tells the ...

Above, one of the first local comedy albums was Kent Bowman’s “Pidgin English Children’s Stories” in 1961. Above, Douglas Simonson’s “Pidgin to Da Max” comic-­style book sold an astounding 25,000 ...