Adverbial and Adjectival Abuse in Nigerian English
By Farooq A. Kperogi Of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar—nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions and conju...
By Farooq A. Kperogi Of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar—nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions and conju...
By Farooq A. Kperogi If you are a university graduate who has been socialized to disdain polytechnics as inferior higher education instit...
By Farooq A. Kperogi Former youth and sports minister Alhaji Saidu Samaila Sambawa, in an overly showy effort to impress the Kebbi State gov...
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi In the past few weeks, I have received no fewer than 10 emails from readers of this colum...
A new research has just shown that Louisiana, one of America's poorest states, has the happiest people in the country and New York, one ...
By Farooq A. Kperogi Contemporary Nigerian media English, for the most part, derives from a fetid repertoire of aggravatingly stereotyped an...
By Farooq A. Kperogi In the two-part series I did titled “Eighteenth-century racism in twenty-first America,” I cited a racist picture ...
By Farooq A. Kperogi Nigeria’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Alhaji Garba Aminchi, was quoted by an Abuja newspaper to have fulminated aga...
By Farooq A. Kperogi There is probably no more misused word in Nigerians’ demotic speech than the word “sentiment”—and its many inflectional...
By Farooq A. Kperogi Unfortunately, my expectations about the Dec. 1 runoff contest didn’t materialize. Atlanta did not, after all, have it...
By Farooq A. Kperogi I was having a meeting with one of my students in my office when my friend from CNN who had paid me a visit got a terse...
By Farooq A. Kperogi When America’s political history is recapitulated decades from now, the late 2000s may well be dubbed the season of rac...
UPDATE By Farooq A. Kperogi I wrote a two-part series about a racist Louisiana Justice of Peace by the name of Keith Bardwell who refused t...
By Farooq A. Kperogi It doesn’t take much thought to realize that Keith Bardwell’s animus against black and white couples is merely symbo...
By Farooq A. Kperogi On the very day that President Barack Obama visited New Orleans (Louisiana’s biggest and most historic city), an ele...