All Outputs (11)

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.

Humanity, Culture, and Representation in Theatre and Film: Africa Ukoh, author of 54 Silhouettes, and Carmen McCain in Conversation (2019)
Digital Artefact
McCain, C., & Ukoh, A. Humanity, Culture, and Representation in Theatre and Film: Africa Ukoh, author of 54 Silhouettes, and Carmen McCain in Conversation

Boko Haram (2018)
Book
Kendhammer, B., & McCain, C. (2018). Boko Haram. Ohio University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv224tpdz

From its small-time origins in the early 2000s to its transformation into one of the world’s most-recognized terrorist groups, this remarkable short book tells the story of Boko Haram’s bloody, decade-long war in northeastern Nigeria. Going beyond th... Read More about Boko Haram.

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

An Evolution in Nollywood, Nigeria’s New Wave: A Conversation with Chris Eneaji (2016)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2016). An Evolution in Nollywood, Nigeria’s New Wave: A Conversation with Chris Eneaji. Black camera, 7(2), 194-216. https://doi.org/10.2979/blackcamera.7.2.194

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.

Nollywood, Kannywood and a Decade of Hausa Film Censorship in Nigeria (2013)
Book Chapter
McCain, C. (2013). Nollywood, Kannywood and a Decade of Hausa Film Censorship in Nigeria. In D. Biltereyst, & R. Vande Winkel (Eds.), Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship Around the World (223-240). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137061980_14

One of the most striking stories in recent global film history is the dramatic rise of the Nigerian “video film” industry, dubbed Nollywood, a prolific low-budget film industry based in Africa’s most populous country. Turning out over a thousand feat... Read More about Nollywood, Kannywood and a Decade of Hausa Film Censorship in Nigeria.

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.

FESPACO in a time of Nollywood: The politics of the ‘video’ film at Africa’s oldest festival (2011)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2011). FESPACO in a time of Nollywood: The politics of the ‘video’ film at Africa’s oldest festival. Journal of African Media Studies, 3(2), 241-261. https://doi.org/10.1386/jams.3.2.241_7

Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris's video-film Albashi (2009)
Book Chapter
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

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... Read More about Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris's video-film Albashi.