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The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation (2025)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2025). The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation. Journal of the African Literature Association, 19(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2025.2464416

In February 2023, Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho tweeted a cover of Muddassir S. Abdullahi’s yet-to-be-published Hausa-language translation of Coelho’s bestselling novel The Alchemist to his 15.2 million followers. At the same time Ibrahim Sheme was... Read More about The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation.

Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria (2022)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2022). Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria. Africa, 92(5), 739-758. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972022000651

Nigeria is often portrayed as having a ‘Muslim north’ and a ‘Christian south’. Such representations oversimplify the complicated interrelationships between the two religious communities and their geographic locations. Similarly, while much has been w... Read More about Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria.

Postcolonial Mythologies (2018)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2018). Postcolonial Mythologies. American book review, 39(4), 7-8. https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2018.0039

Review of Lesley Nneka Arimah's What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah for the Harassment issue of American Book Review

Nollywood and its Others: Questioning English Language Hegemony in Nollywood Studies (2013)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2013). Nollywood and its Others: Questioning English Language Hegemony in Nollywood Studies. The global South, 7(1), 30-54. https://doi.org/10.2979/globalsouth.7.1.30

The current trend in Nollywood Studies is to focus on the way video films are being made and consumed around the world, a focus that parallels the name “Nollywood,” which, as Jonathan Haynes and Alessandro Jedlowski point out, references the film ind... Read More about Nollywood and its Others: Questioning English Language Hegemony in Nollywood Studies.

Video Exposé: Metafiction and Message in Nigerian Films (2012)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2012). Video Exposé: Metafiction and Message in Nigerian Films. Journal of African Cinemas, 4(1), 25-57. https://doi.org/10.1386/jac.4.1.25_1

In this article, I discuss how Nigerian film-makers respond to discourses surrounding film-making in Nigeria through using techniques of metafiction to theorize their roles as professionals and cultural mediators. Dividing my analysis into two sectio... Read More about Video Exposé: Metafiction and Message in Nigerian Films.