By Farooq A. Kperogi With less than two months to the presidential election, America’s politically tinged culture wars—bickering over “hot-b...

By Farooq A. Kperogi A day after I returned from Nigeria, I headed straight to Chicago, America’s third largest metropolitan area (after New...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Barack Obama is no longer the man of the moment in American politics. He has been upstaged by a new kid on the American...

By Farooq A. Kperogi There has been some good news for Barack Obama this week. After being in a statistical dead heat with John McCain for s...

By Farooq A. Kperogi The choice of vice presidential candidates by both Barack Obama and John McCain in the last few weeks has dramat...

By Farooq A. Kperogi When I began these reflections last week, I said they would straddle the entire spectrum from the sublime to the rid...

By Farooq A. Kperogi I was in Nigeria from May to August this year to take a well-deserved escape from the ever-present stress and strain...

This travelogue wa first published in the Daily Trust newspaper, Abuja, Nigeria By Zainab Musa Kperogi who was in the U.S. Between late last...