Abdalla Uba Adamu

عَبْدَ الله أُبَا آدَمُ

Professor of Media and Cultural Communication and of Science Education at Bayero University Kano. Four decades of writing on Hausa popular culture, film, music, literature and education, free to read and download.

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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. His research follows transnational media flows and how they have transformed Muslim Hausa popular culture, especially literature, film, music and the performing arts.

    From 2016 to 2021 he was Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria. He has taught as a visiting professor at SOAS, Rutgers, Columbia, the University of Florida, Warsaw, Basel, Cologne, Hamburg, Mainz and the Humboldt and Free Universities of Berlin.

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    NOUN headquarters legacies, 2016 to 2021 (playlist)
    Equestrian Elegance: the Hawan Sallah pageantry (Hausa, produced by Abdalla Uba Adamu, 2009)
    NTAi Executive Discourse with Abdalla Uba Adamu, 4 March 2020