West African Pidgin English, also called Guinea Coast Creole English, was a language of commerce spoken along the coast during the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th and 18th Centuries.

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 ...

The pronunciation is distinctly African too, something it shares with West Indian Patois. In the playground, we sometimes spoke Pidgin for fun. But I wouldn’t dream of using it at home.

West African Pidgin English was a language of commerce spoken along the coast during the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th and 18th Centuries. Widely used in Nigeria, ...

West African Pidgin English developed during the slave trade in 17th and 18th centuries as a mix of English and local languages. Bilkisu Labaran, the BBC's editorial lead in Nigeria, says the language ...

This paper discusses possible origins of locative for in West African Pidgin Englishes. The development of for is framed componentially, that is, in terms of deriving its constructional meaning from ...

West African Pidgin English, also called Guinea Coast Creole English, was a language of commerce spoken along the coast during the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th and 18th Centuries.

The BBC World Service’s radio service of English-based Pidgin for West and Central Africa, BBC News Pidgin, is now a year old.And it’s thriving. According to the broadcaster it News Pidgin ...