Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to African literature, translation has mostly meant translating work from European languages into African ones.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A first-of-its-kind dictionary is coming to the world that’s comprised of words created, defined, and used in the African-American ...

Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.

In this article, we will take a look at the top 12 English speaking countries in Africa. English is becoming the most spoken language globally, and it seems like everyone is learning it nowadays.

Oxford University Press has announced it will produce a new dictionary of “African American English,” which will include slang ranging from “hip” to “diss.” Black Harvard literary critic Henry Louis ...

“Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ’Round” is a crowd favorite for the Northwest African American Museum’s African American Choir Ensemble. Based on the spiritual “Don’t You Let Nobody Turn You ’Round,” ...

Legit.ng journalist Adekunle Dada has over 8 years of experience covering metro, government policy, and international issues Nigeria made the list of the top ten English-speaking countries in Africa, ...

The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of words. “The bottom line of the African American people,” Gates said, is “these are people who ...

Topping our list of the top 12 English-speaking countries in Africa is South Africa. British settlers first landed in the South African region in 1795, with a significant influx of English speakers ...

In a recent online presentation, editors and researchers working on a first-of-its-kind dictionary of African American English gave a status update on the project. As academics explained their various ...