As Election Day approaches, high-profile Republicans desert McCain for Obama
By Farooq A. Kperogi Is it over before it is over for McCain? That’s the question the American commentariat is grappling with in light of th...
Thinking of home from abroad (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi Two Saturdays ago, I participated in a conference at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, titled “Democracy a...
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...
Why the U.S. economic slump may coast Obama to victory
By Farooq A. Kperogi Worries over a progressively bad economy are drowning out the “culture wars” that had dominated the U.S. presidential c...
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...
Mourning the death of “America’s Imam”
By Farooq A. Kperogi On September 9, 2008, the 9th day of Ramadan here, Muslims in America lost an inspirational icon with the death of Imam...
Return of American culture wars heats up presidential race
By Farooq A. Kperogi With less than two months to the presidential election, America’s politically tinged culture wars—bickering over “hot-b...
Two days in “America’s most segregated city”
By Farooq A. Kperogi A day after I returned from Nigeria, I headed straight to Chicago, America’s third largest metropolitan area (after New...
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