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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

'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.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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 ...

MILILANI, Hawaii (AP) — When Hawaii comedian Andy Bumatai was searching for a new way to attract the attention of audiences on the Internet, his wife suggested he find inspiration in something from ...