This travelogue wa first published in the Daily Trust newspaper, Abuja, Nigeria By Zainab Musa Kperogi who was in the U.S. Between late last...

By Farooq A. Kperogi President Warren Harding Warren G. Harding, the 29th president of the United States who served between 1921 an...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Talk of the “suppressed” racial identities of past American presidents has been grist in the rumor mills of members of ...

Since the return of my column about two months ago I have received lots of supportive emails from my readers. In the tradition of what I lik...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Two weeks ago, I pointed out that there is an emergent crop of Black American leaders who is actuated by a new kind of ...

Farooq A. Kperogi I apologize that I am not concluding the article I started last week. I will, all things being equal, conclude it next wee...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Barack Obama may well become America’s next president. But will his epoch-making success be no more than a mere flash i...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Long before Barack Obama became the color bearer of his party, there have been suggestions in a section of the American...

Farooq A. Kperogi As I said last week, it’s not possible to exhaust all the reasons why I think Obama’s chances to become America’s first no...

By Farooq A. Kperogi This is a dizzyingly exciting period in American politics, a period in which Barack Obama, a man of part African ancest...

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...