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 ...

LAGOS, Sept 20 (Reuters Life!) - It may share many of its words and basic grammar with English, but a perplexed look descends across the face of most newcomers to Nigeria the first time they are ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The Lottery Ticket," a one-scene comedy stage play. Synopsis: Set in a typical Nigeria restaurant, with 8 funny characters. The language of the play is uniquely West-African Pidgin- English. The play ...