My Mode of Thinking

By Muhammad Kabir Yusuf When last did you meet a personality of this calibre? The man, Abdalla Uba Adamu became a professor of Science Education in 1997 at the age of 41. He is now a cultural anthropologist, studying popular culture, media and Hausa society. He single-handedly developed internet journalism in Bayero University for which Mass Communication department of the university employed his services. From 2003 when he convened an International Conference on Hausa Home Video, he became internationally acclaimed authority in the field with a number of paper presentations in Germany and U.S.A. He is currently the director of Volkswagen Centre for Research. In this interview with Muhammad Kabir Yusuf, he explains how flexible his personality is which allows him to explore art, literature, popular culture and media. For quite a long time you have been a very good friend of popular culture. What is the history behind that? Well, the only history is that I have always been intereste...

I am not a good student of history. So, I would not know whether history brought together the popular queen Amina of Zazzau dynasty and the powerful queen ‘Yargoje popularly known as Algoje, in Algoje’s court room for the two to sign women empowerment treaty. That would have been a great plus to Hausa society for being the first in the modern history to had empowered women on the African soil. If proven positive, that must had taken place in the 14 th century , between 1310 and 1350 precisely when Algoje ruled Zamfara dynasty. What ever the historical truth might had been, the above was the last scene of the wonderful play performance named Algoje that formed part of the activities of the 27 th International Conventioin of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) in the ancient city of Gusau , the state capital of Zamfara. On the evening of last Friday, the participants from all over the nation and highly placed personalities of Zamfara state gathered in the multipurp...

By Muhammad Kabir Yusuf B.M Dzukogi (aka kindirmo poet) is a writer, literary critic and activist and columnist. The writer of Kano to Ibadan by Road just produced a daringly bold title Sex is Beautiful which generated a lot of comment within the literary circles. LEADERSHIP's MUHAMMAD KABIR YUSUF reviews the book. Title: Sex is Beautiful Author: B. M. Dzukogi Pages: 71 Publisher: Kraft Book Ltd To start with, Dzukogi has basically two reasons for writing the pamphlet Sex is Beautiful. The two reasons are not sequential; the two reasons can not be numbered 1 and 2. Each of the two reasons is an independent number 1. They independently address two different issues. The first reason is an internal compelling urge towards uplifting the moral standards of our beloved country. In Dzukogi's words, "this pamphlet is... a quest to reverse the ills of our immediate environment". Where did this reason origin...