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The book identifies and critically analyses Hausa contemporary films known as Kannywood. The focus is on video films with particular emphasis on sources in oral literature. How traditional theatres are re-enacted and re-framed during filmmaking, and how far are traditional traits captured, changed, or enriched in video film are some issues the book negotiates on. The harmony between orature and technology, as generated by means of the transported film medium is expressed in the book. The new medium is integrated into the ongoing traditional and cultural surroundings, where native narrative traditions have been adopted into the global film medium, which is in alignment with contemporary medial culture. Yusuf Baba Gar is the lecturer for Hausa at the Department of African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin.
This book is the first ‘groundwork’ on Muslim NGOs in contemporary Ghana. It builds upon a database of more than 600 Muslim non-profit associations, foundations and grass-roots organisations whose activities are traced through extensive use of social media. The first part of the book scrutinises the varieties of their activities and operational spaces, their campaigns and target groups, alongside their local, regional, national and international connections. The second part analyses contemporary debates on infaq, sadaqa, waqf and zakat as well as Islamic banking and micro-finance schemes for promoting social welfare among Muslim communities in Ghana.
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This proceedings book presents a collection of research papers from the 10th International Conference on Robotics, Vision, Signal Processing & Power Applications (ROVISP 2018), which serves as a platform for researchers, scientists, engineers, academics and industrial professionals from around the globe to share their research findings and development activities. The book covers various topics of interest, including, but not limited to: •Robotics, Control, Mechatronics and Automation•Vision, Image, and Signal Processing•Artificial Intelligence and Computer Applications•Electronic Design and Applications•Biomedical, Bioengineering and Applications•RF, Antenna Applications and Telecommunication Systems•Power Systems, High Voltage and Renewable Energy•Electrical Machines, Drives and Power Electronics•Devices, Circuits and Embedded Systems•Sensors and Sensing Techniques
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Daughter of a Hausa farmer and Koranic teacher, Baba became Mary Smith's friend in 1949, when M. G. and Mary Smith were engaged in fieldwork in Nigeria. In daily sessions for several weeks Baba dictated her life story, which Mrs. Smith has translated from the Hausa. The old woman's memories reached back to the days of slave raids and interstate warfare before the British occupation, and she has left a fascinating and valuable record of Hausa life in the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. Baba describes Hausa male-oriented society from a woman's point of view, narrating not only her own life history but stories of other women who were close to her. She tells of Hausa...
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