“Emir of Yorubaland”: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Term “Emir”
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The Oluwo of Iwoland in Osun State, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, said on March 31 tha...
Hypocritical Vilification of TY Danjuma in the North
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi General T.Y. Danjuma has become a bête noire in my part of Nigeria, that is, the ...
“Who is Fooling Who?” Q and A on Popular Usage Errors
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Question: What is wrong with the expression “who is fooling who?” Someone told ...
Moghalu, Sowore, and the Diasporan Presidential Challenge
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Kingsley Moghalu, former CBN deputy governor and professor of the practice at Tufts ...
Mixed Feelings about the Release of the Dapchi Schoolgirls
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I am the father of three daughters, one of whom is a teenager. If I were to live in ...
Proposal for Secondary School Transcripts for University Admission
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I was invited by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) sometime ago...
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...
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