Tragic Symbolic Blunders on Buhari’s National Sympathy Tour
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The president’s reluctant decision to compensate for insensitively celebrating with ...
How Boko Haram’s Infighting, Not Government Policy, Degraded It
By Abdulbasit Kassim The President Muhammad Buhari administration has advanced the narrative of “technically defeating,” “tactically d...
African Words in America’s Gullah English Dialect II
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week, I highlighted many African-derived words in the Gullah dialect that Dr. L...
Bursting the Myth of Buhari’s Boko Haram “Success”
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi A false narrative that several people cherish about the Buhari government is the not...
African Words in America’s Gullah English Dialect (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week I identified some notable African onomastic (onomastics is the scienc...
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...
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