Department of Information and Media Studies, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria.

عَبْدَ الله أُبَا آدَمُ
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ڢَكُوْلْتِے أُوْڢْ كَمِيُونِكٜىٰشِنْ، بَايٜرُوْ يُنِبَاسْتِے كَنُوْ، نَيْجِيرِيَا.

Biography

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Books

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Journal Articles

  1. [2020] Suna Linzami: Hausa Names as Ethnographic Markers. Algaita, 3(1), 1-15 (Bayero University, Kano)
  2. [2019] The Political Economy of the Hausa Popular Cultural Industries. Politique africainen°153, p. 59-84. 
  3. [2019] Blending Community Science in the Class Room – Hausa Proverbs and Efficacy of Ethnoscientific Methodology, NOUN Journal of Physical and Life Sciences(NJPLS) Vol.2 June 2018 pp. 1-24.
  4. [2017] Transcultural Connections - Hindi Films, Transborder Fandom and Muslim Hausa Audiences in Northern Nigeria, African and Asian Studies16 (2017):103-127.
  5. [2017] Invisible Visibilities: Gender, the Islamicate Public Sphere and Creative Media Cultures.Journal of Social Sciences, 1(1): 33-55. (National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Jabi, Abuja,
  6. [2017] Controversies and Restrictions of Visual Representation of Prophets in Northern Nigerian Popular Culture. Journal of African Media Studies, 9 (1): 17-31.
  7. [2016] Tribute to Hajiya Sa’adatu Ahmad Barmani Choge, Griotte, northern Nigeria, 1948-2013. The Annual Review of Islam in Africa, Issue No. 12/13, pp. 166-172. (University of Cape Town, South Africa). 
  8. [2016] Environmental ethics and future oriented transformation to sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa. (With Aliyu Salisu Barau and Lindsey C. Stringer). Journal of Cleaner Production, 135(1):1539–1547. 
  9. [2015] PDP reloaded: Political mobilization through urban musics in Kano. Bayero Journal of Political Science (Maiden Edition), June 2014, pp. 65-89.
  10. [2013] Private Sphere, Public Furor: Gender and Delineation of Intimisphäre in Muslim Hausa Video Films, Harsunan Najeriya Special Edition, XXIII: 334-357. Center for the Study of Nigerian Languages, Bayero University, Kano.
  11. [2012] Transnational Media Flows and Contra-Flows: Shifting Paradigms in South-South Entertainment Flows. Hemispheres– Studies of Cultures and Societies, 27:5-32.  Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
  12. [2012] Qualitative Research in the Humanities, in FAIS Journal of Humanities, Special Edition, 2012, pp. 13-54. 
  13. [2012] Al-Hausawi, Al-Hindawi: Media Contraflow, Urban Communication and Translinguistic Onomatopoeia Among Hausa of Northern Nigeria. Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures (ALC),46: 23-57. Department of African Languages and Culture, University of Warsaw, Poland.
  14. [2012] “Go by appearances at your peril”: The Raina Kama writers’ association in Kano, Nigeria, carving out a place for the “popular” in the Hausa literary landscape. [with Graham Furniss], Research in African Literatures, 43(4): 88-121.
  15. [2011] Hausa and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). In  D. Yalwa, A. Y. Bichi & S. Sani (Eds.). Studies in Hausa Language, Literature and Culture (pp.1-30.Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press.  
  16. [2011] Developing Institutional Co-operation Strategies: The Rhetoric and Reality of Academic Linkages with Nigerian Higher Education. Avrasya Etudleri(Eurasian Studies, Turkey), 40/2011-12, pp. 238-258.
  17. [2010] The Muse’s Journey: Transcultural Translators and Domestication of Transnational Music in Hausa Popular Culture.Journal of African Cultural Studies, 22(1): 41–56.
  18. [2010] Education for Sustainable Development – Theoretical Perspectives. Journal of Quality Education, Vol 1 No 1, May 2010, pp. 9-20 [School of Education, Isa Kaita College of Education, Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State, Nigeria]. 
  19. [2007] The 21st Century Teacher and the Challenges of the Teaching Profession. The Kumbotso Teacher Educator, Vol 1 No 1, June 2007, pp. 10-19. [Journal of Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, Kano, Nigeria]. 
  20. [2007] Fulɓe Culture and the Internet: A Survey. Journal of Nomadic Studies, 5: 13-20. Kaduna: Nomadic Education Commission.
  21. [2007] Currying favour: Eastern media influences and the Hausa video Film. Filmint. 28(4): 77-91.
  22. [2006] Loud bubbles from a silent brook: Trends and tendencies in contemporary Hausa prose writing.Research in African Literatures, 37(3): 133-153.
  23. [2003] Teacher Education in the new Millennium. Kano Journal of Educational Studies (KAJEST), Vol 2 No 1, August 2003, pp. 86-97. [Department of Education, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria].
  24. [2003] Parallel Worlds: Reflective Womanism in Balaraba Ramat Yakubu’s Ina Son Sa Haka. Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies:1 (2003).
  25. [2003] Community Participation in Education. UBE Forum, Vol 3 No 3, 2003, pp. 20-32.[Universal Basic Education Commission, Abuja, Nigeria].
  26. [2002] From Mindmeld to Mindset: Negotiating the Information Minefield in Developing Countries. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 28(6): 25–29.
  27. [2001] Hausa prose fiction: Towards an analytical framework. FAIS Journal of Humanities, 1 (4): 86-95. Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. 
  28. [2000] Ajamization of Knowledge: Challenges and Prospects of an Educational Strategy. Al-Ijtihad: The Journal of Islamization of Knowledge and Contemporary Issues. Vol 1, No 3, July 2000. pp 1-24. [The International Institute of Islamic Thought, Nigeria Office, Bayero University, Kano].
  29. [2000] Ajamization of Knowledge as a Universal Basic Education Process for Makarantar Allo Pupilsin Northern Nigeria. Tambari: Kano Journal of Education, Vol 6, No 1, 2000, pp. 318-330. [Federal College of Education, Kano]. 
  30. [1991] Curricular Rhetoric, Class Teaching and Examinations: A Study of the New Nigerian Science Curriculum, Science Education International, Volume 2, No 1, March 1991, pp. 6-10. [The Journal of International Council of Associations for ScienceEducation, Australia].
  31. [1990] Balancing the equation: Girls, tradition and science education in Northern Nigeria, The Ahfad Journal: Women and Change, Volume 7 No 1 June 1990, pp. 14-31. [Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan].
  32. [1990] An intrinsic Analysis of the Nigerian Senior Secondary School Physics Curriculum, Journal of the Science Teachers’ Association of Nigeria, Volume 27 No 1, April 1990, pp. 9-18. [Science Teachers’ Association of Nigeria].
  33. [1990] An intrinsic analysis of the new Nigerian Science Secondary School Chemistry curriculum, Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast AsiaVolume 21 No 1 June 1990, pp. 27-36. [Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia].
  34. [1989] Rhetoric and Reality in Nigerian Science Education: Observations of Science Teaching in Kano State Science Schools, International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 9 No 4 1989, pp. 251-262. [London, McMillan].
  35. [1989] Appliance of Science: Technological Education in Kano State of Nigeria, West Africa11-17th September 1989, pp. 1523-1524. [London].
  36. [1988] An intrinsic analysis of the new Nigerian Science Curriculum, Journal of Curriculum StudiesVolume 20 No 1, 1988, pp 37-57. [London, Taylor and Francis].
  37. [1986] Integrated Science Education in Kano State, Nigeria: The myths and fallacies, Kano Catalyst – Journal of the Kano State Branch of Science Teachers’ Association of Nigerian, Volume 6 No 1 Jan 1986, pp 1-18. [Kano Educational Resource Department].
  38. [1985] Islam and Science in Northern Nigeria: The Case of Dogmatism or a New Age Synthesis? Kano Studies(NS) Volume 2 No 2 1982/85, pp. 83-92. [Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria]. 

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Newspaper Debates

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Conference Presentations

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Some of these have been published, but usually in shorter forms. These papers are the full-length versions. Many of the papers revisit the same argument about the history and structure of visual media in northern Nigeria. This is understandable as requests were repeatedly made by conference organizers for this information, although tailored to specific conferences.

  1. [2015] Youth and Popular Culture in northern Nigeria. Paper delivered at the Hausa der Kulturen der Welt/House of World Cultures, Berlin Germany, on Thursday 6th September, 2015.
  2. [2015] The Influence of Hindi Film Music on Muslim Hausa Popular and Religious Music. Paper delivered at the Hausa der Kulturen der Welt/House of World Cultures, Berlin Germany, on Thursday 6th September, 2015.
  3. [2015] The City at the Edge of Forever – Archiving and Digitizing Arabic Sources on the History of Kano, Nigeria. Paper presented at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg, Germany, 13th August 2015.
  4. [2013] Veiled Voices: Islam, Women and Degrees of Visibility in Muslim Hausa Popular Singing. Paper presented at the International Conference on Testing and Contesting Regimes of Visibility, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology/Institute for African Studies University of Cologne, Germany, 3-5 July 2013.
  5. [2013] Prophetic Wrath: Prophet, Visuality and Power Control in Northern Nigerian Popular Culture. Paper presented at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa on 4th March 2013.
  6. [2013] Poetic Barbs: Angst, Voter Mobilization and Urban Musics in Kano State 2011 Elections. Paper presented at the 1st National Conference on Perspectives on Elections and the Challenges for Democracy in Nigeria, organized by the Department of Political Science, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria on 9th January 2013. Download
  7. [2013] An Ethnographic History of Kanywood – The Hausa Video Film Industry. Paper presented at the Kano State Film Festival, 18th March 2013, Kano, Nigeria. Download
  8. [2012] Al-Hausawi, Al-Hindawi: Media Contraflow, Urban Communication and Translinguistic Onomatopoeia Among Hausa of Northern Nigeria. European Union Visiting Professor Guest Paper Presented to the University of Warsaw, 10th May, 2012, Department of African Languages and Cultures, University of Warsaw, Poland.
  9. [2011] The Beggar’s Opera: Muslim Beggar-Minstrels and Street Oral Poetry Theater in Northern Nigeria. Paper presented at West African Research Agency’s International Conference, Saharan Crossroads: Views from the South, held at Hotel Tenere, in Niamey, Niger Republic from July 7 to July 10, 2011.
  10. [2011] Muslim Religious Extremism, Radicalization and Militancy in Northern Nigeria – Analysis of Insurgency Video Texts. Presented at Roundtable Methodology Workshop on Religion, Conflict and Democracy in Northern Nigeria, organized by Centre for Peace Initiative and Development (CPID), Jos, held at Nevilla Hotel, Kaduna, 12th November 2011, Download
  11. [2011] Interdicting Images in the Islamicate Public Sphere: Sensuality and Spirituality in Figurative Representation in northern Nigerian Popular Culture. Commissioned paper presented at the Scientific Dahlem Conference Freie Universität Berlin, Germany from March 19th to 27th, 2011.
  12. [2009] Transgressing Boundaries: Reinterpretation of Nollywood Films in Muslim Northern Nigeria. Paper presented at the Conference on Nollywood and Beyond: Transnational Dimensions of the African Video Industry held at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, May 13-16, 2009.
  13. [2009] Short-Circuited: Traditional Muslim Hausa Music and the Threats of Transnational Technopop in Northern Nigeria—Strategies for Survival and Preservation. Paper presented at the conference, «Why safeguard our musical heritage for the future? » an academic and cultural conference, under the auspices of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, Abu Dhabi, October 3rd and 4th, 2009.
  14. [2009] Hell on Earth: Media-Mediated Urban Sexuality and Islamicate Popular Culture in Northern Nigeria. Guest Lecture presented at the Center of Competence on Africa, Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland, on 18th February 2009.
  15. [2009] Hausa Video Films – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Intellectualizing Hausa Video Films in Retrospect. Discussion/lead paper presented at the International Workshop on Hausa Home Video Films with the theme of Controversies, Sanity and Solutions in the Hausa Home Video Industry, held at Kongo Conference Center, Institute of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, from 13th to 15th August, 2009. Download
  16. [2009] “Bosho” War: 9/11, Global Media and Local Visual Re-Interpretations in Muslim Northern Nigeria, Paper presented for “Remedializations of Global Events” workshop/conference, the University of Cologne, Germany, November 19-21, 2009,
  17. [2008] North of Nollywood, South of the Sahara: Cultural Dynamics in the Marketing of Hausa Video Films. Discussion Paper for Presentation at the 2-day conference on Nollywood: Challenges of Production, Entertainment Value and International Marketing Strategies, held at the Pan-African University, Lagos, Nigeria from Friday 18th to Saturday 19th July 2008. Download
  18. [2008] Media Technologies and Literary Transformations in Hausa Oral Literature. International Workshop on “Transporting Oral Literatures Between Media, Cultures and Languages”, at Afrika-Asien Institute (AAI), University of Hamburg, Germany, 29th November, 2008.
  19. [2008] Eastward Ho! Cultural Proximity and Eastern Focus in the Hausa Literature. International Workshop on “Transporting Oral Literatures Between Media, Cultures and Languages” Afrika-Asien Institute (AAI), University of Hamburg, Germany, 30th November, 2008.
  20. [2007] Transnational Influences and National Appropriations: The Influence of Hindi Film Music on Muslim Hausa Popular and Religious Music. Paper presented at the Congres des Musiques dan le monde de l’islam, World Conference on Music in the world of Islam, Assilah, Morocco, 10th August 2007.Download
  21. [2007] The Transnational Express: Moving Images, Cultural Resonance and Popular Culture in Muslim Northern Nigeria. Public Lecture Presented at Barnard Forum on Migration, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, United States, November 7, 2007. Download
  22. [2007] Arab Images in African School Curricula – A Study of the History of Learning and Contemporary Schooling Systems in Northern Nigeria. Paper presented at the Symposium on Mutual Perceptions Between Africans and Arabs in School Curricula held at Arewa House, Ahmadu Bello University, Kaduna, from 21- 23 May 2007, and sponsored by Institute Culturel Afro-Arabe (Afro-Arab Cultural Institute), Bamako, Mali. Download
  23. [2005] Read to Reel: Transformation of Hausa Popular Literature from Orality to Visuality. Paper presented at the 24th International Convention of the Association of Nigerian Authors, held on 11th-12th November, 2005 at the Murtala Muhammad Library Complex, Kano. Download
  24. [2005] Divergent Similarities: Culture, Globalization and Hausa Creative and Performing Arts. A Paper presented at the International Conference on Literature in Northern Nigeria, Department of English and French, Bayero University, Kano, 5th-6th December, 2005. Download
  25. [2004] Loud Bubbles from A Silent Brook: Trends and Tendencies in Contemporary Hausa Prose Fiction. Paper presented at “Janheinz Jahn Symposium on African Language Literatures: Production, Mediation, Reception”, held at the Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Universität Mainz (Johannes Guttenberg University), Mainz, Germany, 18th November 2004. Download
  26. [2004] Enter the Dragon: Shari’a, Popular Culture and Film Censorship in Northern Nigeria. Guest Paper presented at the Institute für Afrinkanishe, University of Köln, Germany, 15th November, 2004. Download
  27.  [2001] Tarbiyar Bahaushe, Mutumin Kirki and Hausa Prose Fiction: Towards an Analytical Framework. Department of English and European Languages Seminar, 23rd January 2001.

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Multimedia

A. Music Concerts Facilitated: Produced and Directed [In Concert Series]

“Celebrating the Local Performance Arts of Northern Nigeria.” British Council, Kano. The aim of the project was to celebrate and honor local traditional performance talent and showcase emerging new genres with a view to raising public appreciation of performing artists through a series of live performances. Under this project, I conceptualized, arranged, conducted and facilitated the following concerts:

  1. [2008] Voices from the Desert: Pulaar Music Festival, and Introducing Pulaar Rap, 15th March, 2008 [Music EP of Pulaar Rap]
  2. [2008] Amada Rap with Hajiya Barmani Choge and her Calabash Ensemble, Saturday 12th January, 2008.
  3. [2007] Dueling Banjos – Gurmi and Kukuma Improvizations, 13th October 2007.
  4. [2007] Kukuma Music from Northern Nigeria – Featuring Nasiru Garba Supa and Arewa 17th February, 2007.
  5. [2006] Hausa Rap and Technopop – Showcasing Emergent Hausa Rap Artists, 28th October, 2006.
  6. [2006] Ƙoroso Dance Drama – Dodorido (Traditional African Ballet), 24 June 2006.
  7. [2006] Mai Soso Ke Wanka – An Evening with Hajiya Barmani Choge, 8th March, 2006.
  8. [2006] Muhammad Ɗahiru Daura – The Blind Beggar Minstrel, 14th January 2006.

 

B. Ethnomusicological Music Studio and Field Recordings 

The following are the ethnomusicological recordings I did as part of the digital archiving project to preserve the poetics of Hausa traditional musics and performances (DVDs available]. These recordings are not meant to be commercial, but deposited on the web (www.auadamu.com) where they can be shared with the world as part of contribution towards archiving and sharing traditional musical heritages of the Muslim peoples of northern Nigeria. Those not uploaded had copyright restrictions from Maison du Culture des Monde. 

  1. [2011] Beggar Minstrels from Northern Nigeria - In Memory of Muhammad Ɗahiru Daura. This was a re-recording of the poetics of a blind beggar minstrel, Muhammad Ɗahiru Daura (1946-2010) by another group of blind beggar minstrels led by Tafida Makaho. All the known performances of Ɗahiru Daura were re-recorded in this session. 
  2. [2010] The Short Round Crew – Gangaramariɗo. This is a recording of urban Hausa Children's ‘after dinner’ songs performed on community playgrounds, spaces and theater in evenings in northern Nigeria
  3. [2010] Surbaajo - Pulaar Female Children's Songs. This is a recording of camp songs by young female Fulani children from Kano, northern Nigeria. 
  4. [2010] Gurmi Music from Kano, Nigeria. This is a separate recording of the Alfijir sessions which singles out only the Gurmi recordings. 
  5. [2010] Aliyu Namangi's Waƙoƙin Imfiraji - Fauziyya Sarki Abubakar Reciting. A recording of the poetics of Aliyu Namangi, the most famous blind classical Hausa poet, who was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. The nine-volume set of Imfiraji were fully recorded in this session. 
  6. [2009] Alfijir - Gari Ya Waye. A wholly acoustic studio recording that showcases what would be ‘Hausa Experimental Music’. It is a recording of three traditional Hausa instruments – gurmi (two-stringed lute, preceding the banjo), sarewa (Fulani flute) and duman girke (Hausa bongo drums). 
  7. [2008] Pulaar Rap - Two-Track EP. The first rap in Nigeria in Pulaar language, featuring Naziru ‘Ziriums’ Hausawa
  8. [2006] Hausa Technopop Live. A recording of the live concert of Hausa Technopop by Abdullahi Mighty, Billy-O, Fati Nijar and Maryam Sansangali. 
  9. [2006] Arewa with Nasiru Garba Sufa. This is a recording by Nasiru Garba Supa, the son of the late Hausa ‘kukuma’ [fiddle] player. The recordings were spread over three years; two of the tracks featured the UK Muslim rap group, Mecca2Medina.

 

C. Films Produced and Directed 

  1. [2010] Muslim Hausa Children’s Songs (Producer; 2010, dir. Abdalla Uba Adamu, Kano, Nigeria). This is a commissioned video and audio project of the Al Ain Center for the Study of Music in the World of Islam, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and sponsored by Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH).
  2. [2010] Muslim Hausa Children’s Lullabies (Producer; 2010, dir. Abdalla Uba Adamu, Kano, Nigeria). Similar to no 1 above. 
  3. [2009] Equestrian Elegance: The Hausa Sallah in Kano (Producer; 2009, dir. Bala Anas Babinlata, Kano, Nigeria). [Reviewed by Carmen McCain, Daily Trust (Nigeria) 12th November 2011, p. 48].
  4. [2008] The Khalifa in London – A Documentary on the Visit to London of Sheikh Qaribullah of the Qadiriyya Movement (Producer; 2008, dir. Abdalla Uba Adamu, Kano, Nigeria) 
  5. [2004] Kano State Constituency Accomplishments (Producer; 2004, dir. Ahmad Salihu Alkanawy, Kano, Nigeria)

 

D. Radio Programs – filed under Podcast

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