The Arabic Origins of Common Yoruba Words
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. I am taking a break from English grammar this week to discuss a fascinating 22-page article I read on the...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. I am taking a break from English grammar this week to discuss a fascinating 22-page article I read on the...
Last week’s article with the abovetitle elicited more responses than I have I have space to publish them in weeks. Below is a representati...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. As I sit on my computer to write this, I am so devastatingly downhearted by the current happenings in Niger...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Many of the questions in this week’s column were chosen from the responses I received from my three previous ...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. I really wanted to avoid discussing Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s bid for the presidency of the World Bank. But s...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. This week I am going to respond to a few of the questions I’ve received from readers over the last few weeks...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. It’s trite knowledge that grammatical errors in English—and, for that matter, all languages— are not the pres...
I had not the faintest clue that my last week’s article on Sir Abubakar Tafawa’s Balewa’s 1961 visit to America would generate this much ...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi A couple of days ago, I watched an enchanting 27-minute video of the July 1961 U....