Common Ancestor of American Ebonics and West African Pidgin English
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi My second Black History Month article dwells on the intriguing but not surprising historical ...
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Showing posts with label Black History Month. Show all posts
Celebrating Man Who Made an American a Nigerian
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi February is Black History Month in the United States and Canada. As is my custom, I’ll devote ...
Top 7 Expressions You Didn’t Know We Owe to Black America
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In this final article in my #BlackHistoryMonth series, I bring you major expressions in ...
Yoruba, Fulani, and Other African Personal Names Among Black Americans
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi This week continues my #BlackHistoryMonth series and builds on my February 6 column on the Gul...
Surprising American Cousins Through My Mother’s Ancestry
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi My fascination with and curiosity about America started at the inchoate stage of my educ...
Gullah: Long Lost Africans in America Who’re Still African
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In the United States and Canada, February is celebrated as the “Black History Month.” ...
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...
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...
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...
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