Patience Jonathan’s “Son” and Other Fictive Kinship Terms in Nigerian English
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. On July 18, Nigerian First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan famously said Rivers State governor Rotimi Amaechi ...
Re: Egypt’s Political Crisis and Nigeria’s Misralogists
See below a sample of the thoughtful reactions my last week’s column with the above title generated . I must commend your “Notes from...
Egypt’s Political Crisis and Nigeria’s Misralogists
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Before you rush to look up the meaning of “Misralogist” in the dictionary, let me clarify that the word is e...
Influence of American English on Nigerian English
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. The trouble with labeling anything American English these days is that American English is now actually inte...
I Predicted What’s Happening in Egypt Now
I make no claims to possessing prescient powers, but a February 19, 2011 article I wrote titled “Egypt’s Mubarak is Gone, So What?” prefig...
Multilingual Illiteracy: What Nigeria Can Learn from Algeria’s Language Crisis
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Apparently, Nigeria and Algeria share more similarities than the correspondence in the terminal sounds of th...
Writing and Grammar in the Age of Social Media
Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging are inflicting tremendous violence on writing and grammar at alarmingly unimaginable scales. The anno...
More on Sexual Harassment, Female Nudity and Nigerian Universities
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. A preponderance of the reactions I received to my column on the epidemic of sexual harassment in Nigerian uni...
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