Farooq Kperogi

Early life and education Kperogi was born in 1973, in Okuta, Baruten local government area of Kwara State, Nigeria and is a member of the Bariba (Baatonu) people. 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.

Marital life Farooq Kperogi is married to Maureen Erinne Kperogi with whom he has three daughters and one son.

"Notes from Atlanta" Kperogi's "Notes from Atlanta" political column in the Daily Trust was stopped in December 2018 under pressure from the president Muhammadu Buhari administration which he has been critical of in his columns and social media posts. 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. He has faced death threats from supporters of the Nigerian government for his critical columns and social media updates. and in Peoples Gazette, an online newspaper.

Awards and honors 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner Department of Communication's Outstanding Alumnus Award, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA Outstanding Academic Achievement Award in Graduate Studies, Georgia State University Outstanding Graduate Student in Communication, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Prize for the Best Graduating Student in Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano

Published work Glocal English: The Changing Face and Form of Nigerian English in Global World. New York: Peter Lang, 2015. Nigeria's Digital Diaspora: Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation. New York: Rochester University Press, 2020.