America's Unknown Black Presidents Before Obama? (III)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Continued from last week President Warren Harding The rumors surfaced agai...
African Words in the American English Gullah Dialect
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week I identified some notable African onomastic (onomastics is the scienc...
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...
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