BUEA, Cameroon (GPI)--Joana Lum, 47, sells vegetables at the main market in Buea, the capital of Cameroon’s Southwest region. She says she never fails to listen to Global Voices, the lone Pidgin ...

Pidgin English has been the main means of communication for the educated and uneducated in Nigeria and other West African countries for decades. What many do not know, however, is that pidgin didn't ...

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 ...

A United States–based language expert, Dr. Foluso Okebiorun, has called for the inclusion of Nigerian Pidgin English in the national school curriculum, describing the language as a vital unifying ...

“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 ...

Nigerian Pidgin English, a Creole language derived from English mixed with other indigenous languages, has evolved over decades as a means of communication between diverse linguistic communities ...