This column was first published in the print edition of Weekly Trust on September 17, 2006. By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi...

By Farooq A. Kperogi One of the joys—or burdens—of being a commentator in a public medium is that you easily become a magnet for parasocial ...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Last week, I made a passing reference to an instructive and insightful article written by an Irish-born, American-educa...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Obama also has a history of publicly denouncing African leaders. "If the people cannot trust their government to d...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Perhaps, at no time in history have people of African descent all over the world been as collectively and contagiously ...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Conventional wisdom holds that art imitates life. But Oscar Wilde, the inimitable Irish writer and wag, once provocat...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi There is no question that President Umaru Yar’adua has been paying close attention to what i...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Why the hate? The overpowering but wholly groundless sentiment among many white conservatives, especially Southern whit...

By Farooq A. Kperogi In a town called Midland in the state of Michigan, a reliably Democratic state, a man attired in the ghoulish ceremonia...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Now the real threats A few months before Barack Obama was elected president, there were at least three high-profile att...

By Farooq A. Kperogi In the heady after-glow of Obama’s epochal victory, the world seems unmindful of a real, ever-present danger that haunt...