@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/jpcl.13.1.03bic, author = "Bickerton, Derek", title = "A Sociohistoric Examination of Afrogenesis", journal= "Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages", year = "1998", volume = "13", number = "1", pages = "63-92", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.13.1.03bic", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/jpcl.13.1.03bic", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "0920-9034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "African Languages", keywords = "Cormantin", keywords = "Language Ecology", keywords = "McWhorter", keywords = "Atlantic Creoles", keywords = "Language Contact", keywords = "Continental Drift", keywords = "Afrogenesis", keywords = "Pidgin Hawaiian", keywords = "Castle Slaves", keywords = "Mulattoes", keywords = "West Africa", abstract = "Afrogenesis is taken here to mean the belief that the English-based Atlantic creole languages originated on the West Coast of Africa. This paper shows that Afrogenesis, originally proposed in work by Hancock and by Smith, and now given a new lease on life by McWhorter, is at best highly dubious. The same is true of any single-source, diffusionist account of the similarities between the English-based creoles.", }