Farooq Kperogi | |
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![]() Kperogi in 2021 | |
Born | March 30, 1973
Baruten, Kwara State, Nigeria |
Occupation | Professor |
Academic background | |
Alma mater |
Georgia State University (Ph.D) University of Louisiana at Lafayette (M.Sc) Bayero University (B.A) |
Thesis | Webs of Resistance: The Citizen Online Journalism of the Nigerian Digital Diaspora (2011) |
Doctoral advisor | Michael L. Bruner |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English language, Communication, Social and Behavioral Sciences [1] |
Sub-discipline | English usage, Media English, Nigerian English, World Englishes [1] |
Institutions | Kennesaw State University |
Main interests | New Media, English usage, Journalese, Political criticism [1] |
Notable works | Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World |
Website |
farooqkperogi |
Farooq Adamu Kperogi (born 1973), is a Nigerian-American professor, [2] author, media scholar, newspaper columnist, blogger and activist. He was a reporter and news editor at many Nigerian newspapers including the Daily Trust, Daily Triumph and the now defunct New Nigerian. [2] [3]
He worked as a researcher at the Presidential Research and Communications Unit in the Olusegun Obasanjo administration and had taught journalism at Ahmadu Bello University and Kaduna Polytechnic. He is a full professor of journalism and emerging media at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, United States. [4] [5] [6] [7]
He is one of Nigeria's newspaper columnists whose views are quoted by former president. [8] [9]
He is the author of Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English, published in 2015, as the 96th volume in series of Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotic. [10] [11] He is also the author of Nigeria's Digital Diaspora Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation ( University of Rochester Press, 2020) which was awarded the "2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner,". [12]
Kperogi was born in 1973, in Okuta, Baruten local government area of Kwara State, Nigeria and is a member of the Bariba (Baatonu) people. [13] He attended Bayero University between 1993 and 1997, where he received bachelor's degree in mass communication. He obtained a master's degree in communication at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a Ph.D. from Georgia State University in the United States in 2011. [5]
After graduating from Bayero University, Kano, Kperogi started working as reporter with newspapers in Katsina and Kano before joining the Media Trust as correspondent for the now defunct Weekly Trust.[ citation needed] He also worked for the now defunct federal government-owned paper, the New Nigerian, in the early 2000s. Kperogi began his academic career between 2000 and 2002 at Kaduna Polytechnic, where he taught journalism and mass communication.[ citation needed] He also taught at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria for a brief time in 2004. [6] Between 2002 and 2004, Kperogi worked in President Olusequn Obasanjo's administration as a presidential speechwriter and researcher. Kperogi writes two columns, "Politics of Grammar" and "Notes from Atlanta", for the Abuja-based Daily Trust weekend editions. Kperogi has written extensively about Nigerian English. [14]
Farooq Kperogi is married to Maureen Erinne Kperogi with whom he has three daughters and one son. [15] [16]
Kperogi's "Notes from Atlanta" political column in the Daily Trust was stopped in December 2018 under pressure from the president Muhammadu Buhari administration [17] which he has been critical of in his columns and social media posts. [18] [19] In protest, he stopped his popular "Politics of Grammar" language column in the Daily Trust on Sunday, which he wrote for more than a decade. [20] He has faced death threats from supporters of the Nigerian government for his critical columns and social media updates. [21] [19]
Kperogi's "Notes from Atlanta" column now appears every Saturday on the back page of the Nigerian Tribune, and in Peoples Gazette, an online newspaper. [22] [23]