NOUN Appoints New Vice Chancellor - 2016.

NOUN Appoints New Vice Chancellor - 2016.
Prof. Dr. Abdalla Uba Adamu - NOUN VC 2016
Prof. Dr. Abd

alla Uba Adamu, holds double professorships in
Science Education (1997) and Media and Cultural Communication
(2012) from Bayero University Kano, Nigeria. The Professorial
Inaugural Lectures he delivered in each discipline are available
on this site.
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, www.fohapa.com) whose main focus is archiving
traditional performing arts heritage of the Muslim Hausa.
In 2012 he was appointed European Union Visiting Professor for
the project 'The Modern University' at the Department of African
Langauges and Cultures, University of Warsaw, Poland from 1st
March to 31st May 2012. At Warsaw, he taught two highly
popular courses: Transnationalism and African Popular Culture,
and Oral Traditions in Local and Global Contexts. His recent
publications are listed in this website.
He is currently working in the area of Cultural Anthropology,
with a specific focus on the identity formation among Hausa-
Arabs in northern Nigeria.
Specialties: Media and Cultural Communications, Science
Education, Ethnoscience, Research Methdologies, Management
Information Systems, Translations
Interests
Ethnomusicology cultural anthropology digital archiving of
literary texts
research methodologies media anthropology performances
Experience
Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University Kano,
Nigeria
October 2012 ? Present (3 years 5 months)
Teach courses in media and cultural communication, especially as
both relate to the Muslim Hausa of northern Nigeria, and
specifically in areas of popular culture such as music (both
traditional acoustic and electronic), literature (mainly
contemporary Hausa literature) and Hausa video films, film
theory and criticism, film techniques, film production, literary
criticism, social media and online identities, online
communication, media research methodologies
Bayero University, Kano
October 1997 ? Present (18 years 5 months)
Teaching and research in Science Education, Ethnoscience,
Ethnomathematics, science education curriculum development,
indigenious knowledge in science and environment, indiginization
of Arabic script (as ajami) by the Hausa in literacy campaigns,
History and Philosophy of Science
Bayero University Kano
July 1980 ? Present (35 years 8 months)
Visually Ethnographic Networks
March 2003 ? Present (13 years)
Visually Ethnographic, established in 2006 in Kano city, northern
Nigeria, is a research company with a focus on field recordings of
ethnographic data, especially in northern parts of Nigeria. It
mainly produces non-commercial, educational documentary films
for libraries, schools and NGOs on various aspects of cultural
anthropology of mainly Muslim Hausa as part of its contributions
towards digitalization of the cultural experiences and
transformations in the region. Its main focus is on media and
cultural communication.
Foundation for Hausa Performing Arts
January 2008 ? Present (8 years 2 months)
Ethnomusicological research, digitization and archiving of n
Hausa traditional folk music in northern Nigeria
Center for Hausa Cultural Studies
January 2003 ? December 2007 (5 years)
NGO with a focus on research on Hausa media technologies
especially film, music and literature
Skills
Ethnographic Documentary Filmmaker Film and Music Director
Film Producer
Traditional Hausa Music Production and Direction
Translations (from Hausa to English, or vice-versa) Research
Qualitative Research Teaching Ethnography Film Creative
Direction
Intercultural Communication NGOs Creative Writing English See
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Education
D.Phil, Education and Human Resource Dvt
1985 ? 1988
M.A., Science Education
1982 ? 1983
Chelsea College, Bridges Place, University of London
Dip Sci Education, Science Education
1981 ? 1982
B.Sc. (Ed), Science Education/Biology
1976 ? 1979
Publications
In Isma'ila A. Tsiga & M. O. Bhadmus (Eds.), Literature, history,
and identity in northern Nigeria (pp. 101-128). Ibadan: Safari
Books Ltd. Safari Books Ltd, Ibadan, Nigeria
January 2016
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
Music in the World of Islam Conference, Assilah, Morocco
August 2007
This paper is a study of how transnational musical genres and
forms, specifically from Hindi film music, became appropriated
and domesticated by Muslim Hausa of northern Nigeria and
integrated as part of their youth popular culture, as well as
religious musical performances. It specifically analyses how the
Muslim Hausa music of northern Nigeria became transformed
first as a result of Islamic encounters, and subsequently as a
result of global media flows which appraises the musical
relationships that have been formed and continue to be formed
between different regions of the world of Islam. It looks at how
Hindi film music became appropriated by the Muslim Hausa and
recast as a new form of secular and religious performance in an
Islamicate society, and the consequences of such circulation on
the structural character of Hausa traditional music.
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
Bayero Journal of Political Science (Maiden Edition), pp. 65-89.
Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
June 2014
The political climate of the Kano State, Nigeria, partisan political
administration from 2003-2011 reveal a state of constant clash
between the Kano State government regulatory agencies and the
indigenous entertainment industries. This resulted in banning, for
instance, the Hausa video film industry for sometime, and the
jailing of many entertainers on the pretext of contravention of one
censorship law or other. The result of these government activities
created an atmosphere of angst in the entertainment industry,
leading to the virtual collapse of the entertainment industry as a
result of the exodus of many entertainers from Kano. When the
2011 elections came up, the biggest group of youth mobilizers
were those from the entertainment industry who through music
and lyrics created a message tunnel to youth to vote against the
then current government in power. Situated within the theoretical
frame of voter mobilization, this paper therefore analyses the
feelings of angst and expression of anger towards the political
class in 2011 Nigerian elections and politics by non-partisan
Hausa urban electronic musicians in the northern Nigerian city of
Kano.
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
In 9/11 and its Remediations in Popular Culture and Arts in
Africa, Edited by Heike Behrend, Tobias Wendl (2015), pp. 39-57.
Berlin, Lit.Verlag.
June 2015
This chapter analyzes the remediation of 9/11 event in two Hausa
video film comedies that parodied both Osama bin Laden and the
American President George Bush. The two video films, Ibro Osama,
and Ibro Saddam, provide a light-hearted look at an extremely
serious event, re-mediating the event through re-interpretation of
the event based on news reels as reported by international news
media. In this way, the Hausa filmmakers re-tell the story from a
different point of view to an audience largely sympathetic to
Osama bin Laden.
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. 6 Bde. Oxford 2009.
Bd. III, S. 459-462
2009
Encyclopedia entry on Maitsine religious cult in the 1980s in
northern Nigeria, updated from the original by Allan Christelow
to include Qur'anniyun (The Submitters) in Kano.
Authors:
Abdalla Uba Adamu, Allan Christelow
The Journal of African History, 55(1): 129-130
March 2014
This is a review of Role of the Press and Communication
Technology in Democratization: The Nigerian Story. By Aje-Ori
Agbese, and published in The Journal of African History
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
Visually Ethnographic Networks
July 2014
This is the video segment of my se

cond professorial inaugural
lecture which I delivered on Wednesday 9th July 2014 in Bayero
University Kano, Nigeria. The text of the lecture is available on
this site. I cringe whenever I hear my voice -- so I understand if
you also cringe :-)
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
July 2014
Full text of my second Professorial Inaugural Lecture, delivered on
Wednesday 9th July 2014.
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
Bayero University Kano, Nigeria
April 2004
Full text of my first Professorial Inaugural Lecture, delivered on
Saturday 24th April 2004.
Authors: Abdalla Uba Adamu
Saturday, February 13, 2016