“Ayagi”: Earliest Nupe-Influenced Hausa Name for Yoruba People
By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi I had no idea that “Ayagi” or “Eyagi” is the Nupe exonym (i.e., external name) for Yoruba people u...
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Showing posts with label Inter-ethnic relations. Show all posts
The Intellectual Case Against Nigeria’s Break-Up (III)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi What I have said about the Yoruba people ( see part II ) is also true of many ot...
Is There Such a Thing as “Hausa-Fulani”?
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi A reader of this column repeatedly challenged me to justify calling President Mu...
A Know Nothing Nation
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi America gets a bad rap for being a nation of ignorant and self-involved people w...
The Case Against Nigeria’s Break-up (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. I want to begin this week’s installment by responding to a challenge thrown at me by a reader. The reader s...
The Case Against Nigeria’s Break-up (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. In light of the strains imposed on our quest for national unity as a result of Boko Haram’s campaign of te...
Thinking of home from abroad (IV)
By Farooq A. Kperogi One of the biggest germinal tragedies of Nigeria, as Chinua Achebe pointed out in his The Trouble with Nigeria, is t...
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