By Farooq A. Kperogi English is a notoriously aphonetic language. That is, there is often a vast disconnect between its orthography (i....

By Farooq A. Kperogi The auguries aren’t looking pretty for President Barack Obama right now. Unless something really dramatic happens bet...

In line with my tradition, which I haven’t observed in a long while, I am sharing a sample of the several comments I received on the above a...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Nigeria’s First Lady “Dame” Patience Jonathan has by now securely established well-deserved notoriety for ...

By Farooq A. Kperogi The status update of one of my Facebook friends simultaneously enchanted and piqued my curiosity. The friend was...

Farooq A. Kperogi When, in 2009, Weekly Trust reported that I won the top Ph.D. student award here at Georgia State University in Atlanta,...

By Farooq A. Kperogi This was not what I wanted to write about this week. I wanted to honor the request of a friend and faithful reader of ...

By Farooq A. Kperogi In the well-justified triumphalism that has greeted the overthrow of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, we all seem to have d...

By Farooq A. Kperogi A few weeks ago, a British journalist and documentarian called me from London. He was researching so-called Nigerian 4...

It is impossible to publish the nearly 100 emails I’ve received in response to the above article. But what follows is representative of t...

I have again chosen to share with my readers a sample of the responses I received on my last two articles on this column. My response to som...