On Buhari’s Death
By Farooq Kperogi It has been announced that former President Muhammadu Buhari passed away in London. Anyone familiar with my writings and ...
Problem of Paying Peanuts to Professors
By Farooq A. Kperogi The last few days have witnessed intense social media debates among the Nigerian chattering classes about the unaccept...
Fake AI-Generated Article Cited My Book from the Future!
By Farooq Kperogi Google Scholar just alerted me to another citation of my work in what has turned out to be yet another AI slop masquerad...
ADC Coalition vs. APC: Fresh Faces or Familiar Failures?
By Farooq A. Kperogi The Nigerian political space and preparations for the 2027 general elections have been electrified with the high-decibe...
Nlewedim: You Can Have an Igbo English Accent Without Speaking Igbo
By Farooq Kperogi My erudite lawyer friend Kenneth Ikonne’s Facebook comment yesterday about a certain Erica Nlewedim (an Igbo woman who spe...
Northern Nigeria’s First Female Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
By Farooq A. Kperogi Please join me to raise a glass to celebrate Hadiza Usman Ma'aji, whom the Senate of Ahmadu Bello University, Zar...
AI’s Threat to Journalism, Scholarship, and Self-Expression
By Farooq A. Kperogi On June 16, the final day of my three-week visit to Nigeria, I met with my dear friend Malam Ali M. Ali, Managing Direc...
Nigeria is Closer from a Distance
By Farooq Kperogi During my recent three-week trip to Nigeria, I found myself in a strange kind of informational blackout. I had no access ...
Seeing Nigeria from My American Daughter’s Eyes
By Farooq A. Kperogi Sometimes, it takes the unburdened and free-spirited perceptions of outsiders, particularly children, to appreciate t...
Maryam Abacha’s Curious Reinvention of Abacha Loot
By Farooq A. Kperogi In a June 9, 2025, interview with TVC, Maryam Abacha claimed that the more than $3.8 billion recovered from the Unite...
Fight Against Vanity Academic Titles in Africa
By Farooq A. Kperogi On May 30, 2025, Ghana’s Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) issued what it termed a "final caution" agains...
Why the Anti-Tinubu Coalition Isn’t Coalescing
By Farooq A. Kperogi There is supposed to be a formidable coalition of powerful regional and national political forces working to upstage P...
Why There’s No Such Thing as “Correct” or “Incorrect” Pronunciation
By Farooq Kperogi Yesterday’s light-hearted post about African English pronunciations using the example of how Nigerians, Kenyans, and Gha...
"Wok, Wak, Wek!"—The African English Accent Showdown
By Farooq Kperogi If you listen carefully to English spoken across Anglophone Africa, you'll notice three unmistakable "accent ca...
Hamdiyyah and Sokoto Governor’s Rejection-Sensitive Dysphoria
By Farooq A. Kperogi In the symbolic and political nucleus of the Sokoto Caliphate, an imperial, illiberal, power-drunk governor who is held...
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