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 Umar&#;one 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 Bagaja&#;the first adapted novel by Abubakar Imam, which was again part of thefamous&#;firstfive