ABOUT ME

Farooq Kperogi is a Professor of Communication (Journalism and Emerging Media) at Kennesaw State University in Greater Atlanta, USA, where he teaches a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in communication.

Professor Kperogi is the author of several books, including GlocalEnglish: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World (Peter Lang, 2015), Nigeria's Digital Diaspora: Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation (Rochester University Press, 2020)—which won the 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award—and Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa (Routledge, 2022). He co-edited The Challenges of Democratic Governance in Nigeria's Fourth Republic with Professors Stanley Naribo Ngoa and Eghosa Osaghae.

In addition to his books, he has contributed numerous conference presentations, book chapters, and journal articles, some of which have received international recognition, such as the 2016 "Top-Rated Research Paper Award" at the 17th Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas, Austin, USA, and an award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in Canada in 2019.

Before relocating to the United States, Professor Kperogi worked as a staff writer, reporter, news editor, and features editor at notable Nigerian publications, including Daily Trust, New Nigerian, Katsina Newsweek, and Daily Triumph. He also served as a researcher at the Presidential Research and Communications Unit in the Nigerian President's Office and worked as a part-time journalism lecturer at Kaduna Polytechnic in Nigeria.

In April 2014, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Department of Communication honored him as its "Outstanding Alumnus." He was also recognized with Kennesaw State University's School of Communication and Media's Outstanding Research and Creativity Award in 2016 and 2017.

Professor Kperogi previously served as the Managing Editor of the Atlanta Review of Journalism History, a refereed academic journal. Additionally, he was the Associate Director of Research at Georgia State University's Center for International Media Education (CIME) for four years.

For more than 13 years, he wrote two widely popular weekly newspaper columns: "Notes From Atlanta" in Daily Trust on Saturday (formerly Weekly Trust) and "Politics of Grammar" in Daily Trust on Sunday (formerly Sunday Trust). In December 2018, his "Notes From Atlanta" column was discontinued in Daily Trust under pressure from the Nigerian presidency. However, since October 2018, the column had also been published on the back page of Saturday Tribune, Nigeria's oldest privately-owned English-language newspaper, ensuring its continuity.

Professor Kperogi earned his Ph.D. in Public Communication from Georgia State University's Department of Communication, where he taught journalism for five years and received the "Outstanding Academic Achievement in Graduate Studies Award."

 He obtained his Master of Science degree in Communication, with a minor in English, from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he was honored as the Outstanding Master's Student in Communication. 

He completed his B.A. in Mass Communication, with minors in English and Political Science, at Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria, where he received the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Prize for Best Graduating Student.