Sambawa and “Peasant Attitude to Governance”
By Farooq A. Kperogi Former youth and sports minister Alhaji Saidu Samaila Sambawa, in an overly showy effort to impress the Kebbi State gov...
HND and American Universities
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi In the past few weeks, I have received no fewer than 10 emails from readers of this colum...
Louisiana is America's Happiest State; New York Its Unhappiest!
A new research has just shown that Louisiana, one of America's poorest states, has the happiest people in the country and New York, one ...
10 Most Annoying Nigerian Media English Expressions
By Farooq A. Kperogi Contemporary Nigerian media English, for the most part, derives from a fetid repertoire of aggravatingly stereotyped an...
Fried Chicken and Watermelon: Racism Through Food in America
By Farooq A. Kperogi In the two-part series I did titled “Eighteenth-century racism in twenty-first America,” I cited a racist picture ...
Yar’adua’s Health: Amb. Aminchi’s Impossible Grammatical Logic
By Farooq A. Kperogi Nigeria’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Alhaji Garba Aminchi, was quoted by an Abuja newspaper to have fulminated aga...
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 ...
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