By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. The trouble with labeling anything American English these days is that American English is now actually inte...

I make no claims to possessing prescient powers, but a February 19, 2011 article I wrote titled “Egypt’s Mubarak is Gone, So What?” prefig...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.  Apparently, Nigeria and Algeria share more similarities than the correspondence in the terminal sounds of th...

Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging are inflicting tremendous violence on writing and grammar at alarmingly unimaginable scales. The anno...

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...

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...

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...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. In what follows, I answer readers’ questions on subject-verb agreement, archaisms, whether or not “youth” ...