My sojourn in a country within a country
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...
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...
How the American presidential election will be won and lost
By Farooq A. Kperogi As Election Day approaches, it’s no longer clear what to believe—or what to expect. Will this election be a historic bl...
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...
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