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New Insights Into “Badamasi,” “Gbadamosi,” and IBB’s Paternal Heritage
Former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s autobiography triggered questions about the onomastic etymology of “Badamasi,” his former last name, which appears to share historical and...
Identity Questions in IBB’s Autobiography
The autobiography of former self-styled “President” Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has already been parsed for its self-serving mendacity, moral spinelessness, maddening insensitivity, self-glorification, and cowardly...
Nicholas Said: Stolen from Borno, Lost in America
This third installment in the Nicholas Said column series expands on my previous pieces and brings the discussion to a conclusion.
Perhaps the final straw...
Nicholas Said’s Encounters with American Racism
This column continues from last week. Isaac Jacob Rochussen, the patrician from the Netherlands who brought Nicholas Said to New York in January 1860,...
Borno Man Who Fought in America’s Civil War in 1860s
In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is celebrated every February, I am continuing my tradition of writing columns that focus on...
