“Naming Ceremony,” “Turbaning,” “Disvirgin”: Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Question: I want to say a BIG THANK YOU for your essays. I personally have gai...
Propagandocracy and the Buhari Media Center
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The Buhari government is an absolute propagandocracy, that is, a government cond...
Black American Vernacular English Expressions You Should Know
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is observed every Febru...
A Vote for “Naija” and Against “Nigeria”
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The National Orientation Agency is relaunching a pointless and misguided campa...
Orwellian Doublespeak About Buhari’s Health
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Doublespeak is intentional manipulation of language to conceal uncomfortable ...
American Influences in Nigerian English
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The trouble with labeling anything American English these days is that American ...
The Dangerous Criminalization of Fulani Ethnicity
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The Nigerian mass media—and the online echo chambers they have spawned on social...
Presidential Lying in Defense of Corrupt “Executhieves”
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi People who have read my column for the last few weeks might be led to suppose th...
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