“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...
Showing posts with label Ilorin identity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ilorin identity. 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...
Re: Ilorin is an Ethnogenesis: Response to Kawu’s anti-Saraki Ilorin purism
What follows is a response to my two-part series on the Ilorin identity and the place of the Sarakis in it. The author advances the same s...
Ilorin is an Ethnogenesis: Response to Kawu’s Anti-Saraki Ilorin Purism (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week, I pointed to the presence of non-Muslim Fulani pastoralists in Afonja’...
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