Ooni of Ife’s Strange Theory of the Yoruba Origins of English
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The Daily Trust of February 29 reported the new, youthful Ooni of Ife, Oba Ade...
Nigeria’s National Assembly of Debauched Know-Nothings
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Several people have pointed out that the legislative branch of government is the on...
America Does NOT Call Itself “God’s Own Country”
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In his creatively humorous January 11, 2016 column titled “Our Elders have Gone ...
African Words in the American English Gullah Dialect (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week , I highlighted many African-derived words in the Gullah dialect that ...
America's Unknown Black Presidents Before Obama? (III)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Continued from last week President Warren Harding The rumors surfaced agai...
African Words in the American English Gullah Dialect
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week I identified some notable African onomastic (onomastics is the scienc...
America’s Unknown Black Presidents Before Obama? (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi 2. President Andrew Jackson President Andrew Jackson, fondly called Old Hickor...
Nigerian and African Muslim Personal Names Among the Gullah of Georgia and South Carolina
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In last week’s column , I promised to share with the reader some of the noticeab...
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