America’s Unknown Black Presidents Before Obama? (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi 2. President Andrew Jackson President Andrew Jackson, fondly called Old Hickor...
Nigerian and African Muslim Personal Names Among the Gullah of Georgia and South Carolina
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In last week’s column , I promised to share with the reader some of the noticeab...
America’s Unknown Black Presidents Before Obama? (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In continuation of my Black History Month articles, I bring you a condensed and ...
Gullah: The Fascinating African-Inflected Black American English Dialect
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In line with my tradition to highlight aspects of the linguistic culture of Blac...
Re: Those Annoyingly Fake Transatlantic Accents at Nigerian Airports
I normally don’t publish reactions to my articles on language and grammar, but I’ve decided to break with tradition this week because, app...
Re: Gere: Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa’s Real Ethnic Group
Last week’s column with the above title generated more buzz than I anticipated. Several people wrote to me to add to our understanding of...
Those Annoyingly Fake Trans-Atlantic English Accents at Nigerian Airports
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I developed a heightened sensitivity to the frustratingly incompetent affectatio...
Gere: Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa’s Real Ethnic Group
Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week I requested that a family member of the late Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa ...
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