Shehu hassan kano biography of martin
LIFE HISTORY OF SHEIKH ALIU HARAZIMI KANO....
An Ethnographic History of Kanywood The Hausa Video Film Industry
PaperpresentedattheKanoStateFilmFestival,18thMarch,Kano,Nigeria.
More direct availability of media technologies in the s in northern Nigeria createdopportunities for the leap from Hausa written literature to film medium, via oral most commonly used among this equipment were the Panasonic M-Series camcorders(M-7,M,M,M,&MSVHS,especially).Thedirectlinkbetweenliterature and film, however, was made only in when the late director Adamu Halilufilmed Shehu Umarone of the five stories that were selected by the British colonialadministration in a literary competition in Shehu Umar is a vast chronicle of the lifeandtimesoftheeponymousturnofafigureattheturnofthe19thcenturywhoselifestoryhetracesinthisnarrativeaboutIslaminWestAfrica.
ThesuccessofShehuUmar,thefilm,wtheappearanceofthefilmversionof Ruwan Bagajathe first adapted novel by Abubakar Imam, which was again part of thefamousfirstfive