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 ...

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 ...

Paradoxically, I actually think that in the long term, it is the English language that is the most in danger. As English becomes the lingua franca, it becomes primarily a tool for communication ...

“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 ...

When local 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 the old days: Pidgin, the ...