KANNYWOOD IMMORALITY?

May the soul of our Dear HOD Dr. Haruna Salihi of POL.SCI. DEPT. (BUK) rest in paradise (amin).indeed we all miss him, he is very kind and democrat.

Africans were developed people with their culture, tradition, religious and simple political institutions before the coming of colonial monsters. Our music, dress, food, thought, believes, art and creativity was been infiltrated by colonial mentality and legacy which embedded on almost every sphere of life, movies is not left aside from the so-called globalizations. Aristotle wrote Drama as ‘emulating human attitude’.

Stage drama and performance was among the traditional verbal type of communication, which mostly  use to disseminate a meaningful message on the view to warn against any social vices and forbidden attitude such as robbery, disobedient, fornication, adultery, and so on which at the end of the play, the antagonist with that role will be disown in the society. Lack wise an actor will be cherish and beloved in they society.

Generally Africa is indeed an heterogeneous country with multiple ethnic and tribal groups, hence each tribal groups have some certain message to disseminate in form of a play or stage performance with their own mother tongue, for instance in Nigeria apart from official language (English) with Nollywood, also they three dominant language in Nigeria i.e Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo has their movie industry mainly to disseminate message to people of same language. They started with local crew and covered within their regions, but today they have an advance crew and technologies with millions of audience across the globe.

What is the cultural heritage of a Hausa man? Modesty, Discipline, Kingship, Royalty, Integrity, Love, very conscious of their glorious book (Qur’an) and adherence to teaching of prophet muh’d (swa). What do think their movie would portray? The above mention qualities. The so-called kannywood of today is an irony bedeviled with European and Asian culture, their story is copyright from Indian and English movies, no new initiatives, as you start watching the movie,will assert what would be end of movie and content of they story is all boring love issues.

Kannywood transmitted some negative attitude to our younger once especially their lyric because children that are use of watching they movie memorized the song and sing in school and on road, it effect their sense of thinking and draw them back in academic excellence, usually their actors are models to their fans therefore they emulate their fashion and style of life which are all European in character. There is one actor, he called himself the ‘multiple award wining actor’what he act in hausa movie as forbidding and he act in English movie as passion, such as kiss and flex, been a married muslim man.

It has come to notice that, some of the kannywood stars their life behind camera is very dirty in term of attitude and way of life, what do think of a preacher who commit, what he called a sin? Immorality!