By Farooq A. Kperogi I was in Japan for a 10-day vacation (workation for my wife), which gave us an opportunity to see our first daughter, a...

By Farooq A. Kperogi This was the question that the wife of my American friend asked me when she and her husband came to pick me up from ...

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 A day after I returned from Nigeria, I headed straight to Chicago, America’s third largest metropolitan area (after New...

By Farooq A. Kperogi I was looking for food, fresh Nigerian food, and I ended up in a “united nations.” That’s the summation of my recent...

By Farooq A. Kperogi I knew I was in a different part of the United States when we passed the state of Maryland and got into the “New En...

By Farooq A. Kperogi In our eastward ascension to Rhode Island, the first state we passed through was South Carolina, Georgia’s immediat...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Have you ever traveled on a bus continuously for 51 hours (that is, for over two days!) with only occasional layove...