Thinking of home from abroad (III)
By Farooq A. Kperogi This country is now ours, and it is we who can make or mar it. We no longer exist at the pleasure of the British—at lea...
The strange meanings of “liberal” and “conservative” in America
This was first published in Weekly Trust Newspaper on December 17, 2005. By Farooq A. Kperogi Even though I have always eschewed, even disda...
Relations between Africans and Black Americans
This was originally published in the Weekly Trust newspaper on December 2, 2005. By Farooq A. Kperogi You would expect that it is natura...
My sojourn in a country within a country
I have decided to archive all my columns in Weekly Trust. The following is my first column, which appeared on November 25, 2005 under the na...
Obama's election: a postmortem
By Farooq A. Kperogi Last week’s epoch-making election of Barack Obama as America’s 44th president will be remembered not just for the novel...
How the American presidential election will be won and lost
By Farooq A. Kperogi As Election Day approaches, it’s no longer clear what to believe—or what to expect. Will this election be a historic bl...
Thinking of home from abroad (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi A lot of people are often shocked to find out that Joseph Wayas, Nigeria's former Senate President from Cross River...
Obama leads McCain in early voting by wide margins
Farooq A. Kperogi Data from early voting—the process by which voters can cast their vote days before the designated Election Day either in p...
As Election Day approaches, high-profile Republicans desert McCain for Obama
By Farooq A. Kperogi Is it over before it is over for McCain? That’s the question the American commentariat is grappling with in light of th...
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