By Carmen McCain, Director, Hausa Home Video Resource Center, Bayero University; Nazir Ahmed Hausawa, Manager, Golden Goose Studio; and Ahmed Alkanawy, Director, Center for Hausa Cultural Studies
Link: Chimurenga Online http://www.chimurenga.co.za/page-118.html
Hamisu Lamido Iyan-Tama, one of the pioneers of the Hausa film industry, was arrested in May 2008 after his film Tsintisya, sponsored by the U.S. embassy, won an award for best "Social Issue" film at the Zuma Film Festival in Abuja. The actor, director, producer, and 2007 gubanatorial candidate was accused of not registering his company with the Kano State censorship board and for releasing the film Tsintsiya in Kano without passing it through the state censorship board. Iyan-Tama has receipts for his registration with the board (now uploaded to http://freeiyantama.blogspot.com) and had publically stated that the film was not for sale in Kano State, although a copy of the film, which an actor claimed was a personal copy, was confiscated from a desk drawer in a video shop during a police raid...
- “The War Against Film-making” by Nasir Gwangwazo, Leadership, March 2008.
- “Press Release: Brief report on the state of film industry in Kano State, Nigeria”
by Ahmad M. Sarari (National Vice President MOPPAN) , 28 February 2008.
- “Taking on Nigeria’s Islamic Censors” by Andrew Walker, BBC. October 2007.
- “Censoring movies and books in Kano: text of press release by Abubakar Rabo
Abdulkarim” 25 September, 2007
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