“Pregnant for a man,” “Spinster,” “Thuggery”: Nigerian English Q and A
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Question: A contributor to your column once observed that it is only Nigerian ...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Question: A contributor to your column once observed that it is only Nigerian ...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi President Muhammadu Buhari is infamously impervious to, and even contemptuous of...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Question: I had a conversation with a native English speaker sometime ago. In ...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, in a news conference on October 12, reported ...
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi At least two categories of (male) Nigerian social media denizens were disconcerted ...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Just like skin bleaching is the chemically induced lessening of the melanin of a...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Dissent and criticism are not only core structural components of democracy, they...
Language is always in a state of flux. It hardly ever happens that archaisms stage a comeback in languages. However, lately, people have d...
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi There is no doubt that Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai embodies one of the ...