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Obama’s birth certificate and America’s discourse of “Otherness”
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It first began as a hushed whisper. Then it became the battle-cry of the right-wing lunatic fringe. And then it transformed to the incoherent murmurs of prominent conservative members of polite society—and became a media sensation. That’s the trajectory of the controversy over President Barack Obama’s American citizenship, which has hopefully come to an end after the public display of his “long form” birth certificate, which incontrovertibly shows that he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.
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Category: Notes from Atlanta Written by Farooq Kperogi
It first began as a hushed whisper. Then it became the battle-cry of the right-wing lunatic fringe. And then it transformed to the incoherent murmurs of prominent conservative members of polite society—and became a media sensation. That’s the trajectory of the controversy over President Barack Obama’s American citizenship, which has hopefully come to an end after the public display of his “long form” birth certificate, which incontrovertibly shows that he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.
Why Americans think Nigerians are rude
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I need to clarify two things before I proceed. First, not all Americans think Nigerians are rude. Heck, many, perhaps most, Americans can’t even tell Nigerians from other Africans. Second, what follows is only an extrapolation from my informal encounters.
Category: Notes from Atlanta Written by Farooq Kperogi
I need to clarify two things before I proceed. First, not all Americans think Nigerians are rude. Heck, many, perhaps most, Americans can’t even tell Nigerians from other Africans. Second, what follows is only an extrapolation from my informal encounters.
Will Obama get a second term?
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The auguries aren’t looking pretty for President Barack Obama right now. Unless something really dramatic happens between now and early next year, he seems headed to be a one-term president.
Category: Notes from Atlanta Written by Farooq Kperogi
The auguries aren’t looking pretty for President Barack Obama right now. Unless something really dramatic happens between now and early next year, he seems headed to be a one-term president.
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Constructions of Africa in young American minds
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Two events, which I shall narrate shortly, inspire guarded optimism in me that the next generation of Americans may grow up with more favorable and balanced impressions of Africa than all the generations that preceded them.
Category: Notes from Atlanta Written by Farooq Kperogi
Two events, which I shall narrate shortly, inspire guarded optimism in me that the next generation of Americans may grow up with more favorable and balanced impressions of Africa than all the generations that preceded them.
Patience Jonathan’s peculiar grammar
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Nigeria’s First Lady “Dame” Patience Jonathan has by now securely established well-deserved notoriety for herself as someone who is compulsively incapable of stringing together a single sentence that is not a comical ridicule of the English language.
Category: Notes from Atlanta Written by Farooq Kperogi
Nigeria’s First Lady “Dame” Patience Jonathan has by now securely established well-deserved notoriety for herself as someone who is compulsively incapable of stringing together a single sentence that is not a comical ridicule of the English language.