Don’t Understand My “Big Grammar”? I’m Not Writing for You!
By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Each time I write, a class of Nigerian social media users routinely write to whine that my “gram...
Showing posts with label Chinua Achebe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinua Achebe. Show all posts
“Tribe” and “Detribalized” are Derogatory Words
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Revulsion against the use of the word “tribe” to exclusively refer to black and b...
Soyinka’s “K-leg” English and My Word of the Year
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi My first column this year is a reflection on Professor Wole Soyinka’s language use ...
Chinua Achebe’s Booker award, Nigeria’s glory
This first appeared on June 16, 2007 in my column in the Weekly Trust newspaper . By Farooq A. Kperogi The recent international recogni...
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