S. N. Sangmpam, Ph. D, is a professor of comparative, African, and African American politics at Syracuse University. He has published in all these subfields. His latest book is Comparing Apples and Mangoes: The Overpoliticized State in Developing Countries.

Blog Entries by S. N. Sangmpam

When Obama Became Black, But Not Lwo or African

Posted November 24, 2008 | 10:12 AM (EST)


Two days after Barack Obama was elected president, one of my students came to see me in my office. He was shocked that the prediction I had made in the fall of 2007, well before the Iowa Caucus, has become reality. Yes, I had predicted in class, at a time...

Read Post