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Abdalla Uba Adamu
Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu is professor of Curriculum Studies, and Media and Cultural Studies in Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. His main research focus is on transnational media flows and their impact on the transformation of Muslim Hausa popular culture especially in literature, film, music and performing arts. He is the creator of the Foundation for Hausa Performing Arts (Kano, Nigeria) whose main focus is archiving traditional performing arts heritage of the Muslim Hausa. His most recent books are Passage from India: Transnational Media Flows and African Cinema: The Video Film in Northern Nigeria (Ohio University Press, US, forthcoming).
His other recent publications include 'The muse’s journey: transcultural translators and the domestication of Hindi music in Hausa popular culture' (Journal of African Cultural Studies, London, June 2010), and chapters in Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa (ed. Herman Wasserman, 2010, London).