USA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: Arrest of editor of FIM Magazine in Kano, Nigeria

>Forwarded:
>From: Carmen McCain, PhD Candidate in the Department of African Languages
>and Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison, currently being hosted in
>the Mass Communications Department at Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
><hausahomevideoresource@gmail.com>
>
>I thought members of the academic community studying African film might be
>interested in the latest developments regarding the Kano State Censorship
>Board, which has arrested and imprisoned dozens of filmmakers over the past
>few years. The most recent development is that the Aliyu Abdullahi Gora II,
>editor of FIM Magazine, one of the most respected Hausa-language
>entertainment magazines, was arrested last Thursday from Kaduna where he
>lives and works. The police, who had travelled from Kano, put him in a taxi
>back to Kano, where he is currently still in prison. The director general of
>the Kano State Censorship Board, Abubakar Rabo Abdulkarim, had accused him
>and 9 other filmmakers of sending him death threats by text message. Today
>marked the fifth day Gora was imprisoned.
>
>The events just narrated come on the heels of an arrest warrant against the
>director general of the Kano State Censorship Board for contempt of court,
>when he failed twice to appear in the Kaduna court, for which he had
>received summons. Gora and several of the other filmmakers he has accused
>were actually the signatories on a lawsuit against Rabo filed last month.
>The filmmakers sued him for defamation of character following claims he had
>made on air at Kano independent television station DITV that Kaduna
>filmmakers were making pornographic films. Following the order for his
>arrest from the Kaduna court, Rabo had obtained a restraining order from a
>Kano high court, to stop Kaduna police from arresting him.
>
>For more details and background on this story, please see my blog:
>
>http://carmenmccain.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/abubakar-rabo-abdulkarim-and-th
>e-continuing-saga-of-arrests-in-kano-and-kaduna/
>
>Thank you,
>
>Carmen McCain
>
>--
>Hausa Home Video Resource Centre
>Department of Mass Communications
>Bayero University
>Kano, Nigeria
>
>http://hausahomevideoresourcecentre.wordpress.com/

Kenneth W. Harrow
Distinguished Professor of English
Michigan State University
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