Currying favour: eastern media influences and the Hausa video film

Film International | August 1, 2007| | Copyright

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 Hollywood and Bollywood. Between 1991 and 2000 there was an avalanche of new producers, directors, actors, marketers ...

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