"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...
Showing posts with label African English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African English. Show all posts
African Words in the American English Gullah Dialect
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week I identified some notable African onomastic (onomastics is the scienc...
Q and A on Nigeria’s and Anglophone Africa’s Strange Political Expressions
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. In this edition of my Q and A series, read why the expressions “cross-carpeting,” “decamping,” “decampees...
The African Origins of Common English Words (V)
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...
The African Origins of Common English Words (IV)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Jitters. The English language owes this alternative word for nervousness to an African language, accordi...
The African Origins of Common English Words (III)
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...
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