West African Pidgin English the river systems into the West African interior because of its value as a trade language among Africans of different tribes. Later in its history, this useful trading language was adopted as a native language by new communities of Africans and mixed-race people living in coastal slave trading bases such as James Island, Bunce Island, Elmina Castle, Cape Coast Castle and Anomabu. At that point, it became a creole language. Some scholars call this language "West African Pidgin English" to emphasize its role as a lingua franca pidgin used for trading. Others call it "Guinea Coast Creole English" to emphasize
Sambo (racial term) Sambo (racial term) Sambo is a term for a person with African heritage and, in some countries, also mixed with Native American heritage (see "zambo"). Formerly, it had the technical meaning of a person having a mixture of black and white ancestry, more black than white—contrast with mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, etc. in modern US English and British English. The word "sambo" came into the English language from the Latin American Spanish word "zambo", the Spanish word in Latin America for a person of mixed African and Native American descent. This in turn may have come from one of three African