The following first appeared in my weekly Notes From Louisiana column in the March 18, 2006 edition of Weekly Trust. By Farooq A. Kperogi...

The following was first published in my weekly column in the print edition of Weekly Trust on September 9, 2006. By Farooq A. Kperogi Tw...

This first appeared in my column in the print edition of Weekly Trust on September 30, 2006 By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi...

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...