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 ...
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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 #5 – Songs in the Key of Life
Miming in the name of love... Bala Anas Babinlata pioneering the love song in Hausa commercial home video, Munkar As ...
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 ...
Kannywood Chronicles #1 – Foundational Soap Operas
A screen grab shows Aminu (starring Ibrahim Mandawari) and his heartthrob Bose in the CTV67 drama Farin Wata, a.k.a. Aminu ...
Kannywood Trajectories (6): The Fountainheads #4 – Sidiya Baƙar Indiya
Sidiya in various twenty-year forms! When Nigeria became independent, the Lebanese cinema owners took the unilateral decision to reduce ...