Thinking of home from abroad (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi A lot of people are often shocked to find out that Joseph Wayas, Nigeria's former Senate President from Cross River...
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...
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...
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