What Yar’adua is learning and NOT learning from America
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi There is no question that President Umaru Yar’adua has been paying close attention to what i...
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi There is no question that President Umaru Yar’adua has been paying close attention to what i...
By Farooq A. Kperogi Why the hate? The overpowering but wholly groundless sentiment among many white conservatives, especially Southern whit...
By Farooq A. Kperogi In a town called Midland in the state of Michigan, a reliably Democratic state, a man attired in the ghoulish ceremonia...
By Farooq A. Kperogi Now the real threats A few months before Barack Obama was elected president, there were at least three high-profile att...
By Farooq A. Kperogi In the heady after-glow of Obama’s epochal victory, the world seems unmindful of a real, ever-present danger that haunt...
By Farooq A. Kperogi One of the biggest germinal tragedies of Nigeria, as Chinua Achebe pointed out in his The Trouble with Nigeria, is t...
By Farooq A. Kperogi This country is now ours, and it is we who can make or mar it. We no longer exist at the pleasure of the British—at lea...
This was first published in Weekly Trust Newspaper on December 17, 2005. By Farooq A. Kperogi Even though I have always eschewed, even disda...
This was originally published in the Weekly Trust newspaper on December 2, 2005. By Farooq A. Kperogi You would expect that it is natura...
I have decided to archive all my columns in Weekly Trust. The following is my first column, which appeared on November 25, 2005 under the na...
By Farooq A. Kperogi Last week’s epoch-making election of Barack Obama as America’s 44th president will be remembered not just for the novel...