Kannywood will
Kannywood will soon be on Global Entertainment Map –
Kano Censorship Board Boss
The Executive Secretary, Kano State Censorship Board, Alhaji
Ismail Na’abba Afakallah has stated the Board is working earnestly
to ensure Kannywood is spotted on the global entertainment map.
Afakallah who revealed this during an interview with Arewa
Agenda, noted that the Hausa film industry is currently stalemated
not because it lacks creativity but because it doesn’t have
capacity to move with evolving trend to match its contemporaries in
the world.
Being a regulatory body who is also mandated with the task of
ensuring that the Kano based film industry reaches its full
potentials, Afakallah revealed that the Board is restructuring the
industry and soon a lot of its operations will take place
online.
“The world today is globalized. If you want to see the
potentialities of Kannywood, the nature of its market in Africa,
the number of Cinemas in Kano and the Local Government where they
are located, the size of investments in the industry and so on,
once you log on to our online portal you will get all these data.
So, someone in America who wants to come and do a film in Kano will
be able to log on get the necessary information before deciding to
travel down, so you see, Kannywood don’t have all these now but
based on what we want to do, it will help a lot in ensuring that we
put Kannywood on a Global Map for lasting progress and wealth
creation.”
“Part of the things that can advance the trade are these things
we are doing, we have trained about 450 persons in the trade in
2018, also we went to Morocco to study their filmmaking techniques.
Recently the Kano State Executive Council approved about 16 million
Naira for an online censorship board where every of our operations
from upcoming movies to censoring and regulations will be
undertaken online, we give feedback and corrections you affect them
and we issue you certificate and so on that is why we profiled all
filmmakers right from the writers and so on so we can just do a lot
of things virtually without the need for a physical meeting.” He
said.
Kannywood is the Hausa Language film industry of Northern
Nigeria based in Kano State.
Arewa Agenda is a Publication of young writers from Northern
Nigeria towards Peaceful Coexistence and National Development
through positive narratives.