I do not agree that the Nigeriam domestic press has been effectively tamed given the facts of what they write and standing their ground without rushing abroad.
I join Ken in celebrating the Nigerian media.
OAA
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From: "Farooq A. Kperogi" <farooqkperogi@gmail.com>
Date: 23/03/2020 19:08 (GMT+00:00)
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Buhari's "Kovik One Nine" Pronunciational Mishap Proves My Saturday Column
Ken,
School of Communication & Media
If I lived in Nigeria, the same fate that befell Burundi journalists might have befallen me, too. But my geographic distance hasn't even given me complete "immunity." The government has mulled (actually planned, according to insiders who revealed this to me) assassinating me here in the US.
An entire government-sponsored online troll factory called the Buhari Media Center has been created and unleashed on me. They invent libelous smears against me in hopes that they will get me to stop writing about their ineptitude and fascist excesses. Hasn't worked and won't work.
The Nigerian domestic media has been effectively tamed. So there's nothing to make a song and dance about here.
Farooq
Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
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Author of Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World
"The nice thing about pessimism is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." G. F. Will
"The nice thing about pessimism is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." G. F. Will
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 2:08 PM Harrow, Kenneth <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:
--say what you will, a country that permits free press to exist is apt to be more just in the long run since govt abuses have a chance of being reported on and seenby the people.]farooq wrote of buhari, below, "After so much pressure, which my widely shared Saturday Tribune back-page column added to, the Aso Rock cabal finally forced Buhari, a dementia-plagued, insentient old geezer who masquerades as "president," to address the nation today on the new Coronavirus."
if he had written the equivalent of the presidents in rwanda, burundi, or the drc--cases about which i know--he'd be dead or in prison, and the president would continue to do as he pleases with no public check on his actions.
i have always been impressed by the nigeria press, ever since living in cameroon in 1977-79 where there was no free press whatsoever. when i went over to nigeria and saw the guardian and other papers, i was astounded.
you all should know about one troubling recent case in burundi: the iwacu 4. https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/02/04/burundi-journalists-convicted-flawed-trial
if you want tohelp, write a letter of protest to the burundian authorities. here is the url for the amnesty action: https://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actions/urgent-action-update-journalists-sentenced-to-imprisonment-burundi-ua-149-19/ken
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
517 803-8839
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Buhari's "Kovik One Nine" Pronunciational Mishap Proves My Saturday Column--Sunday, March 22, 2020
Buhari's "Kovik One Nine" Pronunciational Mishap Proves My Saturday Column
By Farooq A. Kperogi
Twitter:@farooqkperogi
After so much pressure, which my widely shared Saturday Tribune back-page column added to, the Aso Rock cabal finally forced Buhari, a dementia-plagued, insentient old geezer who masquerades as "president," to address the nation today on the new Coronavirus.
Although his speech was pre-recorded, (which means it wasn't live), his handlers couldn't get him to retake the portion where he mispronounced COVID-19 as "Kovik one nine"! And the video clip of the mortifying pronunciational disaster was shared on social media by Buhari's paid social media aide by the name of Bashir Ahmad.
Incompetence is supposed to be the strong suit of the Buhari regime, but they've shown themselves to be incredibly incompetent at even being incompetent!
More crucially, though, the video is powerful, irrefutable evidentiary proof of my assertions (which I repeated in my Saturday Tribune column) that Buhari is too wracked by the ravages of dementia to even know what's happening around him, much less in the world.
There's no sentient, living being on this earth today— and certainly no world leader—who doesn't know that there's a global pandemic tipping over the world that is called the new coronavirus or COVID-19. Watch the video below:
Apparently, his speech writer avoided "coronavirus" because Buhari's dementia-inspired speech impediment would make him slur the word. COVID-19 is easier to say, yet Buhari bungled it. He obviously had never heard it said anywhere even when it's the most commonly heard word on earth now.
That is all the evidence you need to know that Buhari is practically in the land of the living dead. As I said in my Saturday column, Nigeria is currently presidentless.
Postscript:
Buhari's social media aide, Bashir Ahmad, took down the video clip of Buhari's 27-second broadcast a few hours after this post, which went viral on social media. But the video has already been downloaded and shared by millions of people. As usual, Buhari's handlers chose to close the stable door after the horse has bolted!
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Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorJournalism & Emerging Media
School of Communication & MediaSocial Science BuildingRoom 5092 MD 2207402 Bartow Avenue
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, Georgia, USA 30144
Cell: (+1) 404-573-9697
Personal website: www.farooqkperogi.comTwitter: @farooqkperogiAuthor of Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English in a Global World
"The nice thing about pessimism is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." G. F. Will
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