The headline on the article, published on the BBC’s website, reads like this: “Woman wan troway poo-poo, come trap for window.” The piece, written in a form of West African Pidgin English, tells the ...

People in West African countries speak hundreds of languages — more than 520 are spoken in Nigeria alone. A lingua franca is a necessity for day-to-day life. That's where Pidgin comes in. Millions of ...

Two of Ghana‘s biggest hip-hop stars have teamed up for the world’s first pidgin English musical, a fast-paced odyssey into the daily lives of two up-and-coming rappers. “Coz ov Moni,” directed by ...

Singer Simi says that she thought that all Africans spoke pidgin English like Nigerians. The singer appeared as a guest on the recent episode of the 90's Baby Show, where she highlighted the previous ...

What exactly does the BBC think it’s doing? Why on earth should licence-fee payers foot the bill for a news site written in West African Pidgin — a language that started as a bastardised form of ...

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