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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Afrobeats singer Simi Kosoko has recently shared a fascinating experience about Kenya on the 90’s Baby Show. She revealed that during a trip to Kenya, she was surprised to discover that not all ...