Last week, I highlighted many African-derived words in the Gullah dialect that Dr. Lorenzo Turner identified in his book. Several of my Nigerian readers were intrigued by the retention of Fulfulde ...

The traditions and culture of West Africans brought to America through the Atlantic slave trade have been preserved for generations through the Gullah and Geechee people. Today, this community of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Charleston, S.C. – For decades here, there was little mention of the rich culture of the descendants of black slaves, many of whom lived as farmers and ...

ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Descendants of slaves brought to the Sea Islands off South Carolina have helped translate the Bible into Gullah -- the language of their ancestors. The Los ...

The New Testament has recently been translated into Gullah, a language of slaves and their descendants that's still spoken by a few people along the southeast coast of the United States. Steve Inskeep ...

It looked, at first, like just another fun outdoor festival. An R&B band was rocking onstage; a few visitors were chowing down on burgers and fries. And when the Manhattans, the featured group, ...

The Gullah Geechee perform an ancestral ceremony on Sullivan's Island. Courtesy of Queen Quet In Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, along Highway 17, a middle-aged African American man sits on a lawn chair ...

Last week, I identified some notable African onomastic (onomastics is the science of personal names) influences in Gullah personal names. This week, I highlight a few African lexical influences in the ...