HAUSA FILM IS DEAD

The above title is not an epitaph aptly inscribed on the tombstone of our beloved Kannywood,but rather a wake up call for true artiste,film makers and ardent lovers of northern Nigerian culture.It is a clarion call for us to wake up from our lethargy and apply some penicillin to kill the ills that have been allowed to come into the hausa film industry.I make a case against illiteracy,lesbianism,homosexuality,prostitution,child abuse,early child& forced marriage,greed,drug abuse,shirk,hypocrisy,double standards,lack of role models, etc etc.Yes this are some of the culprits in the whole theatre of shame involving the northern film industry and society as a whole.

What Maryam Hiyana did is not a strange thing in Husa land,infact it happens everyday.By denying these girls a chance to be educated and having a lifelihood/career, marrying them off prematurely to avaricious older men who are vampires feeding on young blood;a vicious cycle is let loose.This girls are soon divorced by their husbands and end up running to Kano to fall prey to charlatans who parade as so-called film directors and who soon introduce them to the first lesson in prostitution(using what you have to get what you need)on the casting couch.

Soon enough,a former divorcee,runaway bride or groundnut hawker who cant even spell her name,is soon turned into a star.Big government officials,business men and even religious leaders now invite this naive starlets into their guest house for orgies in exchange for monetary favours.Even the wives of such big men are not left out as they lure this girls to engage in lesbian acts with them.

In northern Nigeria acts of this kind are committed but a facade of religious piety is maintained and religion is used to make people conform to the ruling order.It is only when such acts become exposed that everybody cries wolf and pretends to be not involved;BUT I DARESAY WHO HAS NOT SINNED SHOULD CAST THE FIRST STONE.

I make a case for education of northern youths(especially the girl child),provision of employment opportunities,recreational facilities,human/gender rights,as a cure for juvenile delinquency and support strict laws being promulgated to make sure that only educated professionals are allowed to engage in the film industry.Moreover Kannywood practitioners have to step up their game by learning and using modern techniques and equipment,and working with other counterparts from other parts of the country and beyond.

A situation where the first Nigerian porn tape is shot by Hausa fulani(moslems for that matter)is a matter of shame,and all steps should be taken to never allow this to happen.Banning the industry on the other hand is also not advisable because Hausa film plays a vital role in the society.What we need is a creative solution and rebirth,where the old are done away with and a new generation is brought.It is a curious fact that alot of Northern youth from priviledge backgrounds go into universities to read mass communication,english,literature,theatre arts etc,but never come into the hausa film industry.WHAT A WASTE!

A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE!

In ka ki sharan massalaci,za ka yi sharan kasuwa