By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Continued from last week President Warren Harding The rumors surfaced agai...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week I identified some notable African onomastic (onomastics is the scienc...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi 2. President Andrew Jackson President Andrew Jackson, fondly called Old Hickor...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In last week’s column , I promised to share with the reader some of the noticeab...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In continuation of my Black History Month articles, I bring you a condensed and ...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In line with my tradition to highlight aspects of the linguistic culture of Blac...

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...

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...