I have always been fascinated by Yoruba people’s creative morphological domestication of Arabic names. There are scores of Yoruba names that are derived from Arabic but which are barely recognizable to Arabs or other African Muslims because they have taken Read more…
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The widely shared video showed Abdul Rahman Abdul Rashid, a worker, standing at a mosque’s pulpit in a gas station costume and giving a sermon in clear and beautiful Arabic. A Ugandan who was employed for a petrol station in Read more…