"God don butta my bread!" That's how you say "my wish has been granted" in pidgin English in Nigeria. It's one of the many pidgin phrases that Prince Charles sprinkled into his speeches in Africa's ...

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 ...

There are over 500 indigenous languages currently spoken in Nigeria. However, the official language is English. The other major languages spoken in Nigeria are: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Ibibio, Edo, ...

Words like Troway are an amalgam of "Throw" and Away", but how did we come about "Dormot"? The obvious explanation would be that when confronted with the overwhelming presence of English-speaking ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...