Shall we start with an analogy? Look at these: a. Let’s eat, children. b. Let’s eat children. Sentence A is a call to the kids to come eat while sentence B is a call to some person(s) to come eat […]
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On the ground of its wide geographical dispersion as the world’s most prestigious and documented language, the English Language had been domesticated, nativised, indigenised and adapted in many countries of the world where it serves as a foreign or second […]
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I deem it necessary to do this short essay because many people question my propagation of the British English. Some will even ask me if I do not reckon with the Nigerian English. And I say to them: I do! […]
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The only place to begin is the beginning. Shortcuts cut lives short. When a person or a people do not work with a vision; life goes in disarray. Education is in a state of mess in Nigeria, not because there […]
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The inspiration for this short public essay was borne out of a statement made by a professor of English, Adeleke Lefak Fakoya, in a lecture he delivered in the University of Ibadan in 2014. The professor started his lecture at […]
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