“Mesu jamba,” a Slur against Ilorin People, is a Linguistic Fraud
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi One of the responses I got to last week’s column repeated a historically and sociolinguisticall...
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Showing posts with label Ilorin. Show all posts
Tinubu and the “Yoruba Emir” of Kano
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi The contest for royal supremacy between Muhammad Sanusi II and Aminu Ado Bayero took an explici...
Where are the Descendants of Malians in Yorubaland?
By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Although traces of Islam first came to Yorubaland through the Trans-Saharan Trade (from about the ...
Real Reason the Buhari Cabal Picked Gambari as CoS
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Few appointments have generated as much excitement— and entranced the imagination of N...
“Mesu Jamba,” the Question of Etymological Fallacy, and Other Reactions
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi My November 4, 2018 column titled “Mesu Jamba, a Slur Against Ilorin People, is a...
“Mesu jamba,” a Slur against Ilorin People, is a Linguistic Fraud
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi For those who are not clued-in on Yoruba cultural politics, “ mesu jamba ” is a t...
Ilorin is an Ethnogenesis: Response to Kawu’s Anti-Saraki Ilorin Purism
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi This is a difficult column to write because Malam Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, director-ge...
“Fulani herdsmen” as Nigeria’s new Devil Term
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The signifier “Fulani herdsmen” or, better still, “suspected Fulani herdsmen,” h...
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