Wonders of Hausa-Speaking Northern Christian Names
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Hausa-speaking Christians in Nigeria’s far north are the most invisible demographic in Nigeria....
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Showing posts with label Onomastics. Show all posts
So “Murtala” is actually “Murtadha”?
By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @afarooqkperogi As people who read me know, I am passionate about the epistemology of personal names, which lingu...
Kafiri, Saitan, Ogbomosho: Strange Personal Names Among America’s Gullah People
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In last week’s column , I promised to share with the reader some of the n...
Hausa-Speaking Northern Christian Names: An Onomastic Analysis
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @ farooqkperogi As faithful readers of this column know, I have a scholarly fascination with th...
Hello Bello: How “Bello” Became Nigeria’s Most Ecumenical Name
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: farooqkperogi This article has been in the works for months. Each week I decide to work on it...
Top 10 Yoruba Names You Never Guessed Were Arabic Names
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I have always been fascinated by Yoruba people’s creative morphological domestica...
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