By Farooq Kperogi During my recent three-week trip to Nigeria, I found myself in a strange kind of informational blackout. I had no access ...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi Sometimes, it takes the unburdened and free-spirited perceptions of outsiders, particularly children, to appreciate t...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi In a June 9, 2025, interview with TVC, Maryam Abacha claimed that the more than $3.8 billion recovered from the Unite...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi On May 30, 2025, Ghana’s Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) issued what it termed a "final caution" agains...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi There is supposed to be a formidable coalition of powerful regional and national political forces working to upstage P...

 By Farooq Kperogi Yesterday’s light-hearted post about African English pronunciations using the example of how Nigerians, Kenyans, and Gha...

  By Farooq Kperogi If you listen carefully to English spoken across Anglophone Africa, you'll notice three unmistakable "accent ca...

By Farooq A. Kperogi In the symbolic and political nucleus of the Sokoto Caliphate, an imperial, illiberal, power-drunk governor who is held...

By Farooq Kperogi My scholarly interest in the rhetoric of collective identity construction has made me an aficionado of what is called recr...

By Farooq Kperogi My good friend Professor Moses Ochonu casually wrote a lighthearted Facebook update a few days ago about a former Nigerian...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi The server glitch that led to unnaturally high failure rates in Lagos and southeast states in Joint Admissions and Ma...

 By Farooq Kperogi Say whatever you like about Sule Lamido, but one thing is beyond dispute: he is one of Nigeria's most consistent poli...

By Farooq A. Kperogi In the aftermath of Pope Francis’ death, many Africans on the continent and in the diaspora wondered if the Catholic ...