Multilingual Illiteracy: What Nigeria Can Learn from Algeria’s Language Crisis
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Apparently, Nigeria and Algeria share more similarities than the correspondence in the terminal sounds of th...
Writing and Grammar in the Age of Social Media
Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging are inflicting tremendous violence on writing and grammar at alarmingly unimaginable scales. The anno...
More on Sexual Harassment, Female Nudity and Nigerian Universities
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. A preponderance of the reactions I received to my column on the epidemic of sexual harassment in Nigerian uni...
Q and A on American and Nigerian University Terminologies
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. This week, I answer questions on the meaning and uses of the term “professor” in American and Nigerian uni...
Re: The Sexual Harassment Epidemic in Nigerian Universities
As usual, I am sharing with you a sample of reader reactions to last week’s column . I will write more on this subject next week. Tha...
Q and A on Concord, Archaism, and Nigerian English Usage
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. In what follows, I answer readers’ questions on subject-verb agreement, archaisms, whether or not “youth” ...
The Sexual Harassment Epidemic in Nigerian Universities
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. This week, two sensational, high-profile stories have helped to push the epidemic of sexual harassment of ...
Between Useless and Useful Tautologies in English (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. For the part I, click this link A reader called my attention to the fact that Aso Rock is also a tautonym...
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