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Selective Outrage Over Mass Murders In Nigeria

Global UpfrontApr 12, 2025April 12, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi, April 12, 2025 When vigilantes incinerated traveling Hausa hunters in Uromi, Edo State, on the mistaken assumption that they were “Fulani herdsmen,”

Barbaric Mass Burning Of Innocents In Edo

Global UpfrontMar 29, 2025March 29, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi I woke up on Friday morning to a deluge of forwarded, unwatchably terrifying videos showing 16 Hausa hunters, who were traveling

Tinubu As Yesterday’s Rebel And Today’s Tyrant

Global UpfrontMar 22, 2025March 29, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s demonstrably unconstitutional suspension of the elected leaders of Rivers State and his illegal imposition of a retired military

Nasir El-Rufai’s Scorched-Earth One-Man Opposition

Global UpfrontMar 15, 2025March 15, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi Like a stranded mariner gasping on the shores of irrelevance, former Kaduna State governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai writhes in the uneasy

New Insights Into ‘Badamasi,’ ‘Gbadamosi,’ And IBB’s Paternal Heritage

Global UpfrontMar 8, 2025March 8, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi FORMER President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s autobiography triggered questions about the onomastic etymology of “Badamasi,” his former last name, which appears to share

Identity Questions In IBB’s Autobiography

Global UpfrontMar 1, 2025March 1, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi AS someone who has a scholarly interest in—and is actually working on a book on—the rhetoric of collective identity construction in Nigeria,

Nicholas Said: Stolen From Borno, Lost In America

Global UpfrontFeb 22, 2025February 22, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi This third installment in the Nicholas Said column series expands on my previous pieces and brings the discussion to a conclusion. Perhaps

Nicholas Said’s Encounter With American Racism

Global UpfrontFeb 15, 2025February 15, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi THIS column continues from last week. Isaac Jacob Rochussen, the patrician from the Netherlands who brought Nicholas Said to New York in

U.S. Black History Month: Borno Man Who Fought in America’s Civil War In 1860s

Global UpfrontFeb 8, 2025February 8, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is celebrated every February, I am continuing my tradition of writing columns

As Foes And Friends Unite Against Tinubu

Global UpfrontFeb 1, 2025February 1, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi ALTHOUGH 2025 has only just begun, the Machiavellian maneuvers and the increasingly tensile, high-decibel political shrieks being emitted by politicians about the