I've Won Another Top-Student Award at an American University
By Farooq A. Kperogi On April 24, 2009, I won Georgia State University's Department of Communication top Ph.D. student award. The award...
Study Finds No Evidence of Indian Genes in African Americans
By Farooq A. Kperogi An interesting study of African genetics published today has just confirmed what I've always suspected: that, cont...
The "Obama Effect" Spreads to Saudi Arabia: A "Saudi Obama" Emerges
By Farooq A. Kperogi On April 10, the New York Times ran an instructive story of the appointment of an African, identified as Sheikh Adil K...
Susan Boyle: The Woman Who Moved Me To Tears
By Farooq A. Kperogi You see, I was brought up in a culturally conservative, patriarchal household in northern Nigeria where men were (and s...
Tea Bag Parties Or Racist Conservative Convulsions?
By Farooq A. Kperogi On April 15, American conservatives across the country staged what they called "Tea Party" protests ostensibl...
Home Invasion Caught Live On The Internet!
Below is an interesting video of two burglars being recorded live via a surveillance feed on the Internet while they were burglarizing a Flo...
The Other Out-Of-Protocol Obama "Touching" the Media Ignored
You won't see this photo on CNN. Everyone is too busy showing the Queen being touched. This was a moment of "touching" that ...
Bye-bye to Privacy on the Internet as UK begins archival of all emails today
By Farooq A. Kperogi The disturbing visions of a rigidly regimented world in which every citizen's conceivable utterance and action will...
Master's Degree in Twitter and Facebook Studies?
Inside Higher Ed has a curious article about a UK University that has introduced a new master's degree program in "Twitter Studies...
Of Tribe and Pride: Deconstructing Alibi’s Alibis for Racial Self-Hatred
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi I read Mr. Idang Alibi’s response to my article entitled “What’s my Tribe? None” with both ...
Remembering Martin Luther King
The following post first appeared in my weekly column in the print edition of the Weekly Trust newspaper, Abuja, Nigeria on January 28, 2006...
Morality and Religion in America (III)
The following post first appeared in my weekly column in the Weekly Trust newspaper, Abuja, Nigeria, on January 14, 2006. Farooq A. Kperogi ...
Morality and Religion in America (II)
The following post first appeared in my weekly column in the print edition of the Weekly Trust newspaper, Abuja, Nigeria, on January 7, 2006...
Studying in America: What You Need to Know
The following post first appeared in my weekly column in the print edition of the Weekly Trust newspaper, Abuja, Nigeria on May 20, 2006. By...
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