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Kparo: A Study Of The Emergence And Death Of A Minority Language Newspaper In Nigeria, Farooq A. Kperogi
Kparo: A Study Of The Emergence And Death Of A Minority Language Newspaper In Nigeria, Farooq A. Kperogi
Farooq A. Kperogi
This paper is concerned with exploring the history, evolution, content, language and death of the Kparo newspaper, an indigenous, state-run minority language newspaper that was published between the mid and late 1980s in Baatonum (more popularly known as Bariba) language for the people of the former Borgu Local Government who occupy the westernmost fringes of Kwara State on Nigeria’s border with Benin Republic.