Umar Pate
Umaru Pate (an haife shi a shekara ta 1964) farfesa ne a tarihin kafofin watsa labarai kuma masani.

Shi ne Mataimakin Shugaban Jami’ar Tarayya Kashere, Jihar Gombe.     kuma tsohon Shugaban Makarantar Nazarin Digiri na biyu, Jami’ar Bayero Kano,  Shugaban Kungiyar Sadarwa. Masana da ƙwararrun ƙwararrun Najeriya (ACSPN), memba na Cibiyar Cibiyar Sadarwa ta UNESCO.

Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haifi Umar Pate a ranar 4 ga Janairun 1964 a fadar Hakimin karamar hukumar Song ta Jihar Adamawa, Najeriya.  Ya sami takardar shedar kammala makarantar firamare a makarantar firamare ta Nassarao Jeleng LEA a 1976. Daga nan sai ya wuce Kwalejin Gwamnati ta Maiduguri inda ya zama dalibin da ya fi kowa yaye a Makarantar Sakandare ta Yammacin Afirka (WAEC), GCE O' Level in Arts Department a 1981. 

Bayan haka, ya halarci kwalejin share fage da ke Yola, a shekarar 1982, inda ya yi aikin hukumar hadin gwiwa ta wucin gadi (IJMB) wanda ya ba shi damar shiga matakin digiri na 200 kai tsaye a shekarar 1984. Pate ya kammala karatunsa na digiri a Mass Communication a shekarar 1987 sannan ya sami digiri na biyu a Jami'ar Falsafa ta Ghana, Legon da kuma Phd a Jami'ar Maiduguri a 1990 da 1997.

Sana'a 
Umar Pate ya fara aiki a sashen Mass Communication, Jami'ar Maiduguri a shekarar 1988, ya zama mataimakin farfesa a shekarar 2002. An nada shi Farfesa a Mass Communication and Dean, School of Postgraduate Studies, Bayero University Kano a 2007.  

A kan 20 Oktoba 2007, Pate ya zama Farfesa na Media da Society.

Alƙawari na duniya 
A watan Nuwamba 2017, UNESCO ta nada Pate a birnin Paris a matsayin darekta mai wakiltar Afirka a kwamitin gudanarwa na mutane shida na babbar cibiyar sadarwa ta kasa da kasa ta UNESCO Farfesa a Sadarwa ( ORBICOM ) wanda ke da hedkwatarsa a Jami'ar Quebec a Montreal, Kanada.

Yabo/kyaututtuka 
Ya yi aiki a matsayin mai ba da shawara ga kungiyoyi da yawa a cikin gida da kuma da gangan kamar NSAID, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNESCO, bankin duniya, Ford foundation da sauransu.

Ba tare da yin watsi da al'adarsa da al'adunsa ba, Farfesa Pate kuma shi ne Kaigama na jihar Adamawa wanda ke fassara zuwa ga babban hafsan hafsoshi sannan kuma daya daga cikin Sarakuna 12 na jihar.  Yana da littattafai sama da 66 na ƙasa da na duniya a sassa daban-daban na duniya.  

Wasu daga cikin kyaututtukan da VC na FUK, Umar Pate ya samu ita ce lambar yabo ta "Award of Excellent for Humanity" da kungiyar 'yan jarida ta kasa (NAWOJ).

Manazarta

Rayayyun Mutane
Haifaffun 1964