Tinubu Dramatizes Hollowness of Nigeria’s “Independence”
By Farooq A. Kperogi October 1 is celebrated as Nigeria’s Independence Day. But Nigeria isn’t independent. It is, for all practical purposes...
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Showing posts with label Politics and race. Show all posts
“New” National Anthem is National Self-Debasement
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Nothing in my adult life has made me more ashamed to be a Nigerian and more inclined to comple...
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...
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...
Conservative Republican Activist Calls Michelle Obama A Gorilla
By Farooq A. Kperogi The American mainstream is pretending to be in shock over the invidious racist slander against Michelle Obama by a prom...
Is "multiracial" the emerging dominant minority in America?
By Farooq A. Kperogi A May 28, 2008 Associated Press story that shows that "multiracial people" are the fastest growing demograph...
How Black People Became White!
This first appeared in Weekly Trust on December 22,2005 . By Farooq A. Kperogi Since its début about a month ago, this column has enjoyed an...
Six past American presidents with African blood? (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi President Warren Harding Warren G. Harding, the 29th president of the United States who served between 1921 an...
Six past American presidents part Africans? (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi Talk of the “suppressed” racial identities of past American presidents has been grist in the rumor mills of members of ...
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