Obama: the Great African Hope or the Great African Hype? (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi Perhaps, at no time in history have people of African descent all over the world been as collectively and contagiously ...
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Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
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...
Obama's election: a postmortem
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...
Obama leads McCain in early voting by wide margins
Farooq A. Kperogi Data from early voting—the process by which voters can cast their vote days before the designated Election Day either in p...
U.S. presidential campaigns turn ugly, nasty, mean
By Farooq A. Kperogi Barack Obama’s decisive, almost insurmountable, lead in the polls—and with it the seeming inevitability of his emergenc...
African immigrants in America who will not vote for Obama
By Farooq A. Kperogi Given the enormous excitement that Barack Obama generates in Africa (and among Africans both at home and in the diaspor...
Palin displaces Obama as the new American sensation
By Farooq A. Kperogi Barack Obama is no longer the man of the moment in American politics. He has been upstaged by a new kid on the American...
Obama leads in polls again but fears of ‘Bradley effect’ remain
By Farooq A. Kperogi There has been some good news for Barack Obama this week. After being in a statistical dead heat with John McCain for s...
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