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The Black British English Podcast

Ife

Education

Frequency: 1 episode/117d. Total Eps: 6

A podcast by your favourite Creole Polyglot Ife Thompson talking all things Black British English, Language justice & joy and Black Language practices.

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The Diaspora Loved It 🇯🇲🇸🇷🇸🇱 Nigerians Dragged Me Over Sabi & Pikini 🤓

Saturday, July 12, 2025 • Duration 17:49

What if Jamaican Patwa and West African Pidgin aren’t broken English but living African languages?

After my viral interview with Professor Hubert Devonish on the Caribbean roots of words like “pikini” and “sabi”, the diaspora responded with love — but not without backlash. Some people in the comments called us liars and a conversation about language and unity became distracted by a fight about identity.

This podcast is my response.

Join me as I unpack why I stand by the theory that Caribbean languages like Patwa and surinamese creole carry a deep African linguistic history seen in west African pidgins till today! It is the reason why we must unlearn colonial ideas about what counts as “proper” language.

We’ll explore linguistic resistance, the Middle Passage, and how African languages didn’t die they adapted, survived, and returned.

This is about more than words. It’s about memory, power, and reclaiming what’s ours.

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🇳🇬God Forbid Challenge : Why This Trend is Not Non-Black People’s Portion

Monday, April 21, 2025 • Duration 09:53

In this podcast episode, I talk about all things wrong with non-Black people jumping aboard and on the “God Forbid Challenge” currently trending on social media. I take you through a range of issues mentioned below too, including:

1. Accent Discrimination- Research shows that attention to linguistic cues like accents may be more potent than visual cues like skin color (Kinzler et al., 2007, 2009) when it comes to discrimination.

2. Blaccent Blackface- the phenomena of white people temporarily inhabiting a Black persona for a saucy tweet or comedic Instagram caption. When white people do this, not only are they making the uncomfortable choice to act like something they are not, they suggest that Blackness is something to be slipped in and out of: donned when it’s time to make your followers laugh or see you differently, and shorn when it’s time to be taken seriously- Study Breaks, Imani Benberry

So settle, get ready to learn and most of all share.

Follow our instagram for me @theblackbritishenglishpodcast

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Reflections on my trip to the Jamaican Language Unit

Season 1 · Episode 3

Saturday, February 22, 2025 • Duration 14:52

This episode is all about my visit to the Jamaican Language Unit (JLU) at the University of the West Indies, Mona—and trust me, it was a beautiful experience! I got to sit down with Professor Hubert Devonish, the man behind it all, to talk about his work globally and locally on giving Jamaican Patois the recognition and flowers it deserves and the push to make Patois an official language.

If you’ve ever wondered about the work being done to preserve and promote Caribbean languages on the islands this one’s for you. Tune in for all my reflections from my trip.

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JAMAICAN LANGUAGE UNIT WEBSITE- https://www.mona.uwi.edu/dllp/jlu/background

Swan report- https://education-uk.org/documents/swann/swann1985.html

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Anti-Black Linguistic Racism

Season 1 · Episode 2

Sunday, March 17, 2024 • Duration 12:19

In this episode, I explore the meaning of this term coined by Dr April Baker Bell and explore the ways in which we see this type of linguistic racism come up. I lastly go into the ways in which we can call it out as Black language speakers.

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Can UK Slang be a Language?

Season 1 · Episode 1

Saturday, January 13, 2024 • Duration 18:41

Join your host Black Language Researcher Ife Thompson as she explores what makes something a “slang” and if what is called “UK Slang” meets the definition.

The Black British English Podcast (Trailer)

Sunday, December 3, 2023 • Duration 00:59

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