Summary

Prof. Dr. Abdalla Uba Adamu, holds double professorships in Science Education (1997) and Media and Cultural Communication (2012) from Bayero University Kano, Nigeria. The Professorial Inaugural Lectures he delivered in each discipline are available on this site.

His main research focus is on transnational media flows and their impact on the transformation of Muslim Hausa popular culture especially in literature, film, music and performing arts. He is the creator of the Foundation for Hausa Performing Arts (Kano, Nigeria, http://www.fohapa.com) whose main focus is archiving traditional performing arts heritage of the Muslim Hausa.

In 2012 he was appointed European Union Visiting Professor for the project ‘The Modern University’ at the Department of African Langauges and Cultures, University of Warsaw, Poland from 1st March to 31st May 2012. At Warsaw, he taught two highly popular courses: Transnationalism and African Popular Culture, and Oral Traditions in Local and Global Contexts. His recent publications are listed in this website.

He is currently working in the area of Cultural Anthropology, with a specific focus on the identity formation among Hausa-Arabs in northern Nigeria.

Specialties: Media and Cultural Communications, Science Education, Ethnoscience, Research Methdologies, Management Information Systems, Translations.

Experience

Professor of Media and Cultural Communication
Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria.
October 2012 – Present (3 years 5 months)

Teach courses in media and cultural communication, especially as both relate to the Muslim Hausa of northern Nigeria, and specifically in areas of popular culture such as music (both traditional acoustic and electronic), literature (mainly contemporary Hausa literature) and Hausa video films, film theory and criticism, film techniques, film production, literary criticism, social media and online identities, online communication, media research methodologies.

Professor of Science Education and Curriculum Studies
Bayero University, Kano.
October 1997 – Present (18 years 5 months)
Teaching and research in Science Education, Ethnoscience, Ethnomathematics, science education curriculum development, indigenious knowledge in science and environment, indiginization of Arabic script (as ajami) by the Hausa in literacy campaigns, History and Philosophy of Science.

Lecturer
Bayero University Kano
July 1980 – Present (35 years 8 months)

Chief Executive
Visually Ethnographic Networks
March 2003 – Present (13 years)
Visually Ethnographic, established in 2006 in Kano city, northern Nigeria, is a research company with a focus on field recordings of ethnographic data, especially in northern parts of Nigeria. It mainly produces non-commercial, educational documentary films for libraries, schools and NGOs on various aspects of cultural anthropology of mainly Muslim Hausa as part of its contributions towards digitalization of the cultural experiences and transformations in the region. Its main focus is on media and cultural communication.

Chief Executive
Foundation for Hausa Performing Arts
January 2008 – Present (8 years 2 months)
Ethnomusicological research, digitization and archiving of n Hausa traditional folk music in northern Nigeria.

Chairman
Center for Hausa Cultural Studies
January 2003 – December 2007 (5 years)
NGO with a focus on research on Hausa media technologies especially film, music and literature.

Education

University of Sussex
D.Phil, Education and Human Resource Dvt.
1985 – 1988

University of London
M.A., Science Education
1982 – 1983
Chelsea College, Bridges Place, University of London.

University of London
Dip Sci Education, Science Education.
1981 – 1982

Ahmadu Bello University
B.Sc. (Ed), Science Education/Biology.
1976 – 1979


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Baba on the northern mission...It's good shaaa...former south and Christian now we have North and Muslim

its really terrible.

how can u appoint a man who doesnot have Open university background and training.

this is terrible. Am really disappointed with this appointment.

this buhari of a man its really on a mission NOW