Haidar's Corner

I feel… I give… Sometimes that’s all there is… To write about love… To say anymore, Would be a repetition; Or maybe worse a digression… Haidar Wali 200308152059

 A young man seems to be in love with a girl and a few seconds later they are shown to be either singing a song or dancing and singing a song. I would ask: “What type of movie would this remind you of when we talk of the films of the 1980’s?” An Indian film of course!!  But with the coming of Hausa films, I’m sure when one first reads it definitely it is a depiction of nothing other than our much loved Hausa films. Nowadays you would hardly hear Indian songs being played (as before) in places like Kano, Katsina, Maiduguri, Zaria and Sokoto. In their place and with more fervor we hear Hausa songs such as: ‘Sangaya’, ‘Dan-mazari’, Wasila’ , and the many more famous songs that are sung and even memorized by many. Hausa films have become deeply rooted in the Hausa society such that there is hardly a house you would go to in which you wouldn’t find them in so far as there is the wherewithal to have a video player.  Unfortunately, ever since their rise to prominence...