New Rules for Nigerian Air Travelers to the US!
This absolutely hilarious but nonetheless instructive list came to my inbox today and I thought I would share it with my readers. It had me ...
Hello, I’m Nigerian AND I’m Not a Terrorist! (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi While on a visit to a friend’s house a few days after Abdul-Mutallab’s treacherous misadventure, I saw a man here who l...
In Defense of “Flashing” and Other Nigerianisms
By Farooq A. Kperogi My former American student who is now my Facebook friend wrote a status update on Dec. 31, 2009 that got me thinking...
Hello, I’m Nigerian AND I’m Not a Terrorist! (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi The intense anxiety and unease that Nigerians in the diaspora now feel in the wake of Umar Farouk Abdul-Mutallab’s a...
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...
On the Parity of Esteem Between Polytechnics and Universities
By Farooq A. Kperogi If you are a university graduate who has been socialized to disdain polytechnics as inferior higher education instit...
Sambawa and “Peasant Attitude to Governance”
By Farooq A. Kperogi Former youth and sports minister Alhaji Saidu Samaila Sambawa, in an overly showy effort to impress the Kebbi State gov...
HND and American Universities
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi In the past few weeks, I have received no fewer than 10 emails from readers of this colum...
Louisiana is America's Happiest State; New York Its Unhappiest!
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 ...
10 Most Annoying Nigerian Media English Expressions
By Farooq A. Kperogi Contemporary Nigerian media English, for the most part, derives from a fetid repertoire of aggravatingly stereotyped an...
Fried Chicken and Watermelon: Racism Through Food in America
By Farooq A. Kperogi In the two-part series I did titled “Eighteenth-century racism in twenty-first America,” I cited a racist picture ...
Yar’adua’s Health: Amb. Aminchi’s Impossible Grammatical Logic
By Farooq A. Kperogi Nigeria’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Alhaji Garba Aminchi, was quoted by an Abuja newspaper to have fulminated aga...
Why is “Sentiment” Such a Bad Word in Nigeria?
By Farooq A. Kperogi There is probably no more misused word in Nigerians’ demotic speech than the word “sentiment”—and its many inflectional...
No Reverse Obama Moment for Atlanta After All
By Farooq A. Kperogi Unfortunately, my expectations about the Dec. 1 runoff contest didn’t materialize. Atlanta did not, after all, have it...
Making Sense of a Senseless Mass Murder
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...
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