Re: On the parity of esteem between polytechnics and universities
By Dr. M.S. Abubakar I would like to congratulate Farooq Kperogi for his brilliant two-part essay on the Degree/HND dichotomy which appeare...
Readers' Reactions to My Language Articles
Re: 10 Most Annoying Nigerian Media English Expressions Thanks so much. There are other annoying things that are obviously grammatically wro...
Responses from My Readers
Below are a few of the several reactions I received from my readers on many of articles. I will publish the rest in due course. Re: “ What d...
Funny Cartoon of Nigerian Woman Being Strip-Searched by U.S. Airport Security
It appears that the recent wrong-headed classification of Nigeria as a "country of interest" (read: a terrorist country) by the Ob...
New Rules for Nigerian Air Travelers to the US!
This absolutely hilarious but nonetheless instructive list came to my inbox today and I thought I would share it with my readers. It had me ...
Hello, I’m Nigerian AND I’m Not a Terrorist! (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi While on a visit to a friend’s house a few days after Abdul-Mutallab’s treacherous misadventure, I saw a man here who l...
In Defense of “Flashing” and Other Nigerianisms
By Farooq A. Kperogi My former American student who is now my Facebook friend wrote a status update on Dec. 31, 2009 that got me thinking...
Hello, I’m Nigerian AND I’m Not a Terrorist! (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi The intense anxiety and unease that Nigerians in the diaspora now feel in the wake of Umar Farouk Abdul-Mutallab’s a...
Adverbial and Adjectival Abuse in Nigerian English
By Farooq A. Kperogi Of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar—nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions and conju...
On the Parity of Esteem Between Polytechnics and Universities
By Farooq A. Kperogi If you are a university graduate who has been socialized to disdain polytechnics as inferior higher education instit...
Sambawa and “Peasant Attitude to Governance”
By Farooq A. Kperogi Former youth and sports minister Alhaji Saidu Samaila Sambawa, in an overly showy effort to impress the Kebbi State gov...
HND and American Universities
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi In the past few weeks, I have received no fewer than 10 emails from readers of this colum...
Louisiana is America's Happiest State; New York Its Unhappiest!
A new research has just shown that Louisiana, one of America's poorest states, has the happiest people in the country and New York, one ...
10 Most Annoying Nigerian Media English Expressions
By Farooq A. Kperogi Contemporary Nigerian media English, for the most part, derives from a fetid repertoire of aggravatingly stereotyped an...
Fried Chicken and Watermelon: Racism Through Food in America
By Farooq A. Kperogi In the two-part series I did titled “Eighteenth-century racism in twenty-first America,” I cited a racist picture ...
