Soyinka’s “Be Rest Assured,” “Learned Colleague,” and Other Grammar Q and A
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Question: I read one of your articles in which you pointed out some expression...
Buhari, not Nnamdi Kanu, is the Biggest Enabler of Biafra
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi On the surface, it sounds oddly counter-intuitive to suggest that President Muha...
The Intellectual Case Against Nigeria’s Break-Up (IV)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi One of the biggest germinal tragedies of Nigeria, as Chinua Achebe has pointed o...
The Intellectual Case Against Nigeria’s Break-Up (III)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi What I have said about the Yoruba people ( see part II ) is also true of many ot...
Geographic Genteelisms: How We Use Geography to Hide Our Prejudice
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The place of euphemism or genteelism, that is, intentionally indirect expression...
The Intellectual Case Against Nigeria’s Break-Up (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I want to begin this week’s installment by responding to a challenge thrown at m...
15 Words English Borrowed from Arabic
As all linguists know, English owes way more debt to Arabic than borrowing just 15 words from it. Most of the English vocabulary in astron...
The Intellectual Case Against Nigeria’s Break-up (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In light of the strains imposed on our quest for national unity by the renewed ag...
Names for Disguised Alcoholic Drinks in English
My next project after last week’s well-received column titled “Pig by Other Names: the Multiple Names for Pig and Pig Meant in English” wa...