Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris's video-film Albashi

McCain, Carmen

Abstract

In recent years, the focus on public morals versus private practice has been a major concern of Hausa artists in investigating exactly what the private/ public division means for Hausa modernity. After a background on the emergence of these new forms of literature, I will look at the Hausa fi lm Albashi (Salary), directed by Abbas Sadiq and produced by Zainab Idris, as a representative contribution to exploring the anxieties about gender spaces in contemporary Northern Nigeria.

Citation

McCain, C. (2009). Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris's video-film Albashi. In T. Falola, & F. Ngom (Eds.), Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations (163-189). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203872659-19

• Acceptance Date: Jul 8, 2007
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2009
• Deposit Date: Dec 13, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 2, 2109
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 163-189
• Series Title: Routledge African Studies
• Series ISSN: 2767-4991
• Book Title: Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations
• ISBN: 9780203872659
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203872659-19
• Keywords: Hausa, Nigeria, film, Kannywood, Nollywood, gender
• Publisher URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203872659-19/reimagining-gender-spaces-abbas-sadiq-zainab-idris-video-film-albashi-carmen-mccain