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Farooq Adamu Kperogi, 47, Associate Professor of Communication at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA, is a non-apologetic critic of the Buhari government – as he was also of the Jonathan government.
The Kwara State-born media scholar had been a reporter and news editor at various Nigerian newspapers including the Daily Trust, where, until sometime last year, he wrote two weekly columns. He was between 2002 and 2004, one of the speech writers of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He currently writes a column for The Nigerian Tribune. Kperogi, who has a huge social media followership, is extremely popular with the opposition and government critics, who savour his pungent, well- researched, even if biased, uppercuts against the Buhari government – sometimes delivered in a language some people would regard as irreverent. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who campaigned against Buhari’s re-election, once quoted Kperogi in one of his open letters to the Daura General in the run-up to the 2019 presidential election. I confronted Professor Kperogi with a series of no- holds-barred questions.
I mentioned three renowned creative writers and public intellectuals – the late Zimbabwean novelist Dambudzo Marechera who famously said he was against war and also against those who were against wars; Camilo José Cela, the late Spanish novelist and 1989 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, who reportedly said that a writer is necessarily a denunciation of the time in which he lives (which implies that a writer must necessarily be anti-establishment), and our own Wole Soyinka, the first Black African Nobel laureate in Literature, who is often accused of raising rudeness into an art form. I asked where he thinks he falls among these three writers
