Superstitions and the Thieving, Moneyvorous Snake in Benue
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi A Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) clerk by the name of Philomina ...
Kafiri, Saitan, Ogbomosho: Strange Personal Names Among America’s Gullah People
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In last week’s column , I promised to share with the reader some of the n...
News Media’s Cultivation of “Fulani Herdsmen” Hysteria
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Journalists like to think they are the mirror of society. In fact, a famous American...
Gullah: An African-American English Dialect No One Understands
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In line with my tradition to highlight aspects of the linguistic culture of Blac...
How Buhari Has Lowered the Bar of Governance
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi People who say I am too hard on President Buhari like to point out that I am expect...
In Defense of Tautology in English
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Tautology or redundancy, often defined as “useless repetition,” is undeservedly ...
Why Dangiwa Umar Should be the Standard-bearer of the Third Force
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi While there is a widening consensus that President Buhari, through his remarkabl...
Existential Threats of Nomadic Pastoralism to Nigeria
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The bitter, bloodstained rage that has defined relations between farmers and cat...
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