1. Farooq Adamu Kperogi was born on 1973 and is a Nigerian-American professor, author, media scholar, newspaper columnist, blogger and activist.
16 Facts About Farooq Kperogi
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Farooq Kperogi was a reporter and news editor at many Nigerian newspapers including the Daily Trust, Daily Triumph and the now defunct New Nigerian.
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Farooq Kperogi 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.
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Farooq Kperogi is a full professor of journalism and emerging media at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, United States.
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Farooq Kperogi is one of Nigeria's newspaper columnists whose views are quoted by former president.
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Farooq Kperogi 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.
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Farooq Kperogi is the author of Nigeria's Digital Diaspora Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation which was awarded the "2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner".
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Farooq Kperogi attended Bayero University between 1993 and 1997, where he received bachelor's degree in mass communication.
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Farooq Kperogi obtained a master's degree in communication at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a Ph.
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Farooq Kperogi worked for the now defunct federal government-owned paper, the New Nigerian, in the early 2000s.
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Farooq Kperogi began his academic career between 2000 and 2002 at Kaduna Polytechnic, where he taught journalism and mass communication.
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Farooq Kperogi taught at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria for a brief time in 2004.
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Between 2002 and 2004, Farooq Kperogi worked in President Olusequn Obasanjo's administration as a presidential speechwriter and researcher.
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Farooq Kperogi writes two columns, "Politics of Grammar" and "Notes from Atlanta", for the Abuja-based Daily Trust weekend editions.
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Farooq Kperogi is married to Maureen Erinne Kperogi with whom he has three daughters and one son.
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Farooq Kperogi has faced death threats from supporters of the Nigerian government for his critical columns and social media updates.