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Currying favour: eastern media influences and the Hausa video film
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Keywords: Kano; Kanywood; Bollywood; Islam; colonialism; Middle Eastern literature; Translation Bureau; Literature Bureau; 'Istanci'; 'Imamanci'; adaptive translation; 'Bollywoodanci'; globalization; cultural proximity.
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THE HAUSA VIDEO FILM was literally born in 1990 with the first Hausa language film, Turmin Danya in Kano, northern Nigeria. In 1998 media journalists in Kano labelled the industry Kanywood - in the fashion of ...
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