Abdalla Uba Adamu
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Prof. Dr. Abdalla Uba Adamu, holds double professorships in Science Education (1997) and Media and Cultural Communication (2012) from Bayero University Kano, Nigeria.
He was most recently European Union Visiting Professor for the project 'The Modern University' at the Department of African Langauges and Cultures, University of Warsaw, Poland from 1st March to 31st May 2012. At Warsaw, he taught two highly popular courses: Transnationalism and African Popular Culture, and Oral Traditions in Local and Global Contexts.
His main research focus is on transnational media flows and their impact on the transformation of Muslim Hausa popular culture especially in literature, film, music and performing arts. He is the creator of the Foundation for Hausa Performing Arts (Kano, Nigeria) whose main focus is archiving traditional performing arts heritage of the Muslim Hausa.
His most recent book is Passage from India: Transnational Media Flows and African Cinema: The Video Film in Northern Nigeria (Ohio University Press, US, forthcoming). His other recent publications include The muse’s journey: transcultural translators and the domestication of Hindi music in Hausa popular culture (Journal of African Cultural Studies, London, June 2010), chapters in Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa (ed. Herman Wasserman, 2010, London), Media and Identity in Africa (ed. Kimani Njogu and John Middleton, 2009, London), Global Soundtracks: Worlds of Film Music (ed. Mark Slobin 2008, Connecticut, USA) and Beyond the Language Issue – The Production, Mediation and Reception of Creative Writing in African Languages (ed. Anja Oed, 2008, Cologne, Germany).
Specialties: Media and Cultural Communications, Science Education, Ethnoscience, Research Methdologies, Management Information Systems, Translations
Address: Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
Prof. Dr. Abdalla Uba Adamu, holds double professorships in Science Education (1997) and Media and Cultural Communication (2012) from Bayero University Kano, Nigeria.
He was most recently European Union Visiting Professor for the project 'The Modern University' at the Department of African Langauges and Cultures, University of Warsaw, Poland from 1st March to 31st May 2012. At Warsaw, he taught two highly popular courses: Transnationalism and African Popular Culture, and Oral Traditions in Local and Global Contexts.
His main research focus is on transnational media flows and their impact on the transformation of Muslim Hausa popular culture especially in literature, film, music and performing arts. He is the creator of the Foundation for Hausa Performing Arts (Kano, Nigeria) whose main focus is archiving traditional performing arts heritage of the Muslim Hausa.
His most recent book is Passage from India: Transnational Media Flows and African Cinema: The Video Film in Northern Nigeria (Ohio University Press, US, forthcoming). His other recent publications include The muse’s journey: transcultural translators and the domestication of Hindi music in Hausa popular culture (Journal of African Cultural Studies, London, June 2010), chapters in Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa (ed. Herman Wasserman, 2010, London), Media and Identity in Africa (ed. Kimani Njogu and John Middleton, 2009, London), Global Soundtracks: Worlds of Film Music (ed. Mark Slobin 2008, Connecticut, USA) and Beyond the Language Issue – The Production, Mediation and Reception of Creative Writing in African Languages (ed. Anja Oed, 2008, Cologne, Germany).
Specialties: Media and Cultural Communications, Science Education, Ethnoscience, Research Methdologies, Management Information Systems, Translations
Address: Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
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This paper looks at how Hausa film production in northern Nigeria has become commodified and commercialized at the expense of cultural and artistic preservation. Using data from film distributors in Kano, northern Nigeria, it historically explores how market forces determine the future of film production in the region.
This paper looks at how Hausa film production in northern Nigeria has become commodified and commercialized at the expense of cultural and artistic preservation. Using data from film distributors in Kano, northern Nigeria, it historically explores how market forces determine the future of film production in the region.