Re: “Is Nigeria the Name of a City?”
As always, many readers had plenty of thoughtful insights to share with me in response to last week’s column . I am taking the liberty, as...
As always, many readers had plenty of thoughtful insights to share with me in response to last week’s column . I am taking the liberty, as...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph,D. I didn’t think the “Africa-is-a-country” ignorance that pervades America—and Europe—could get any more bizar...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. In the last few weeks I’ve identified a whole host of common English words that are derived from black Afr...
Please find below a sample of the responses that my last week’s column elicited. You have this uncanny way of giving depth and insigh...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Jitters. The English language owes this alternative word for nervousness to an African language, accordi...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi America gets a bad rap for being a nation of ignorant and self-involved people w...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Let me begin this installment with an update. A native Hausa speaker wrote to tell me that another Hausa w...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. The magnitude of ignorance that Nigerians have of each other is truly astounding. For me, the most exasperat...