By Farooq Kperogi I have watched this video of Nnamdi Azikiwe’s November 16, 1960, inauguration as Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief o...

 By Farooq Kperogi I started writing a short, casual article on yansh (the Nigerian Pidgin English word for a woman’s posterior, which prob...

By Farooq Kperogi My erudite lawyer friend Kenneth Ikonne’s Facebook comment yesterday about a certain Erica Nlewedim (an Igbo woman who spe...

 By Farooq Kperogi Yesterday’s light-hearted post about African English pronunciations using the example of how Nigerians, Kenyans, and Gha...

  By Farooq Kperogi If you listen carefully to English spoken across Anglophone Africa, you'll notice three unmistakable "accent ca...

By Farooq Kperogi My good friend Professor Moses Ochonu casually wrote a lighthearted Facebook update a few days ago about a former Nigerian...

By Farooq A. Kperogi I am taking a break from political commentary to everyday language usage this week. A few weeks ago, a British journali...

By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi ASUU president Emmanuel Osodeke obviously didn’t know what “quack” really meant when he used it to...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Since 2015, every August 26 has been observed as “Hausa Day” (or “Ranar Hausa” in the Hausa lan...

By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Nigerians now increasingly say “he’ll win him” to mean “he’ll defeat him.” Even prominent politici...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi It is only in Nigerian English (and perhaps in Ghanaian English since both varieties sha...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter:  @farooqkperogi   This edition of my Q and A series answers such questions as the difference bet...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has failed to bring about the “change” it...