“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 ...

Pidgin, spoken in Hawaii for decades, is now listed as one of the official languages in the islands. The list was released by the U.S. Census Bureau in November after a five-year survey was conducted ...

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 ...

Nicki Minaj recently drew the attention of Nigerians when she spoke Pidgin English in a post on her X (formerly Twitter) account. The award-winning sensation has expressed her fondness with Nigerian ...

One of the rising trends in pop music has been the explosion in the popularity of international music in America, especially Nigerian Afropop (also known by the confusing moniker “Afrobeats” or by ...

Ex Big Brother Naija housemate Tboss recently revealed in an interview during her tours that she can’t speak pidgin English. In what we see as rudeness to Efe’s personality because he is the one who ...

Kenyans like to make fun of Nigerians, especially the Pidgin English in their movies that leave listeners struggling understanding what they are saying. But for Kiswahili speaking Tanzanians, that’s ...

Before you submit an error, please consult our Video Help page. Otherwords is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, ...

SIR: It is inarguably a fact that whatever a vast majority of Africans and nations have now become is a result of their earlier encounter, and continuous interface with the people and nations of the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — Pidgin, spoken in Hawaii for decades ...