NIGERIA: HAUSA FILMMAKERS WRESTLE WITH CENSORS IN KANO STATE.

Interpress Service | September 12, 2008 | Copyright

By Amina Koki Gizo

KANO, Nigeria, Sep. 12, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- "I don't sell cocaine," said the video vendor in Kano's Rimi market, when asked for Adam Zango's music video, Bahaushiya. He was referring not to the drug but rather to a new illegal substance: Hausa films that have not passed through the Kano State Censors Board.

Bahaushiya is an especially hot commodity: It is a series of six music videos satirizing corrupt old men, lamenting fickle girlfriends and featuring dancing Hausa girls. The musician, Adam Zango, also an actor and director in the Hausa ...

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