Outputs (2)

The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation (2025)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (in press). 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.

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.