“Though Tribe and Tongue May Differ”: A Wokeist Look at the Old New National Anthem
Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu I used to be a songwriter and a lyricist. So, I am writing this from lyrical ...
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Salute to a Woman of Substance: Hajiya (Dr) Hafsatu AbdulWaheed, D.Litt., Honoris causa
Hajiya (Dr) Hafsatu Abdulwaheed soon after she was robed She has done it again. She first did it in 1974/80. ...
“Mine is Bigger Than Yours”, Professorial Count, that is!
Zafsay75's controversial graph purporting to show "Number of professors per state in Nigeria" as posted in Nairaland on October ...
Kannywood Chronicles #8 – Hamisu Lamiɗo Iyan-Tama and the Bohemians: Coda to a Visual Symphony
Hamisu Lamiɗo Iyan-Tama gracing a magazine cover in 2004 For the last few weeks, I have been chronicling the story ...
Kannywood Chronicles #7 – The Sangaya Revolution
Revolutionising the Hausa music—the Yamaha PSR-730 keyboard The next Hausa video film—to Badaƙala—to join the rank of catalytic forces to ...
Kannywood Chronicles #6: The Road to Sangaya
Catalytic: Iyan-Tama, Nasiru Gwale and Ɗan Azimi Baba (Photo courtesy: A.U. Adamu) As noted earlier, the initial shaping of the ...
Kannywood Chronicles #4 – Political Economy #2 – Arewa Film Producers Association of Nigeria
Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu Noting all this lack of cohesion (what the industry called “rashin haɗin kai”) a meeting of ...
Kannywood Chronicles #4a – Political Economy #1 – Kano State Filmmakers Association (KSFMA)
Two of the most powerful cassette marketers in Kano in the 1990s – Alhaji Musa Na Malam Kato (L), and ...
Kannywood Chronicles #3 – Market Square Heroes
Late Musa Na-Saleh (R) and his protégé (Photo: Abdalla Uba Adamu No less a production characteristic than the typologies of ...
Kannywood Chronicles #2 – Aminu Hassan Yakasai and Turmin Danya
The creators of commercial Kannywood – L-R: Late (2001) Aminu Hassan Yakasai, screenplay writer/director, and Bashir Mudi Yakasai, pioneer cinematographer ...