..., a fi gure of some charisma among the Muslim youth of the North, but the fact that someone else had tried to tear off the poster of Khomeini registered the wider suspicion that Hausa Sunnis have for Shia worship. Once, while my Vespa was in a line waiting to be repaired, one of the assistants...

... almost always behaved as a domestic colo- nizer in the Nigerian context. The Hausa-Fulani in the Islamic north have been the dominant power holders since independence.31 It is against this backdrop of internal colonialism that Igbo...

.... For a similar example of musical conversion, this one performed by Nige- rian Hausa musicians who take Indian film tunes and change the words to praise the prophet Muhammad, see Brian Larkin, “Bandiri Music, Globalization, and the Urban Experience,” Social Text, no. 81 (2004): 91 – 112. 17...

... A and broadcast Showcase, which rotated various troupes weekly perform- ing in Akan, Ga, Ewe, Hausa, and Dagbane languages. Joris Wartenberg, who had been writing English-­language dramas, approached a young pro- ducer, Nana Bosompra, about doing an Akan-­language drama to appeal to uneducated working...