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BrunerDisciplineEnglish language, Communication, Social and Behavioral Sciences[1]Sub-disciplineEnglish usage, Media English, Nigerian English, World Englishes[1]InstitutionsKennesaw State UniversityMain interestsNew Media, English usage, Journalese, Political criticism[1]Notable worksGlocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global WorldWebsitefarooqkperogi.comFarooq 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\u2019s 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]Early life and education[edit]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]Later life and career[edit]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 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]Marital life[edit]Farooq Kperogi was married to Zainab Musa Kperogi. The union was blessed with two girls and a boy. Zainab died in a road accident in the year 2010.\u00a0He remarried in 2014 to Maureen Erinne Kperogi with whom he has a daughter.[15][16]“Notes from Atlanta”[edit]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]Awards and honors[edit]2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner[24]Department of Communication’s Outstanding Alumnus Award, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA[25]Outstanding Academic Achievement Award in Graduate Studies, Georgia State University[26]Outstanding Graduate Student in Communication, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA[27]The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Prize for the Best Graduating Student in Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano[28]Published work[edit]Glocal English: The Changing Face and Form of Nigerian English in Global World. New York: Peter Lang, 2015. ISBN\u00a0978-1433129261Nigeria’s Digital Diaspora: Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation. New York: Rochester University Press, 2020. ISBN\u00a0978-1580469821References[edit]External links[edit]"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/farooq-kperogi-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Farooq Kperogi – Wikipedia"}}]}]