Why is “Sentiment” Such a Bad Word in Nigeria?
By Farooq A. Kperogi There is probably no more misused word in Nigerians’ demotic speech than the word “sentiment”—and its many inflectional...
No Reverse Obama Moment for Atlanta After All
By Farooq A. Kperogi Unfortunately, my expectations about the Dec. 1 runoff contest didn’t materialize. Atlanta did not, after all, have it...
Making Sense of a Senseless Mass Murder
By Farooq A. Kperogi I was having a meeting with one of my students in my office when my friend from CNN who had paid me a visit got a terse...
Atlanta’s Reverse Obama Moment?
By Farooq A. Kperogi When America’s political history is recapitulated decades from now, the late 2000s may well be dubbed the season of rac...
Racist Louisiana Judge Who Refused to Officiate Interracial Marriage Resigns!
UPDATE By Farooq A. Kperogi I wrote a two-part series about a racist Louisiana Justice of Peace by the name of Keith Bardwell who refused t...
Eighteenth-Century Racism in Twenty-First Century America (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi It doesn’t take much thought to realize that Keith Bardwell’s animus against black and white couples is merely symbo...
Eighteenth-Century Racism in Twenty-First Century America (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi On the very day that President Barack Obama visited New Orleans (Louisiana’s biggest and most historic city), an ele...
U.S. Healthcare: What If You’re a Tourist and Fall Ill?
By Farooq A. Kperogi I thought I had written enough about American healthcare to bore my readers to death. I was wrong. Readers who have ...
Nigerians Who Come to America to Have Babies (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi It needs to be pointed out, however, that relying on emergency departments for the delivery of babies can be dangerous....
Nigerians Who Come to America to Have Babies (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi A reader who read my article last week asked to know how Nigerians who come to America to have babies get medical atten...
Being Sick in America
By Farooq A. Kperogi When you are in America, don’t fall sick—as if anyone can choose when and where to fall sick! But, seriously, if for an...
Why I Hate Barack Obama! Pastor Steven Anderson Sermon
Read what I wrote about this last year (in my Weekly Trust column and on my blog) when most people didn't seem to be thinking in this di...
“What Did You Miss About America While in Nigeria?”
By Farooq A. Kperogi This was the question that the wife of my American friend asked me when she and her husband came to pick me up from ...
In Search of My Maternal Roots in Parakou, Benin Republic
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Over the past week, my first daughter, Sinani, and I traveled to my hometown of Okuta (origi...
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