Nigerian Words and Expressions that are Untranslatable into English
Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I’d planned to write this article last week, but the egregiousness of the grammatica...
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“Sannu da Shan Ruwa,” or “Eku Ongbe,” is Untranslatable into English
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Every Ramadan season, without fail, I get a steady stream of questions from my Ha...
Idioms, Mistranslation, and Abati’s Double Standards
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The controversy over General Muhammadu Buhari’s recent “ kare jini, biri jini ” [...
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