They couldn't have been watching (or following) Hausa films per se. Remember the award covers some other African countries. It would be a herculian task for the organizers to have to be watching the films, which are produced in different languages, made in all the countries. I think what they do is send their representatives to study a particular industry (quality of films produced, turnover of production and sales, etc) and then ask people who watch these films to vote for the actors/actresses they consider the best. Whatever the case, the most important thing to me was that the Hausa film is at least given a recognition. One good thing also was that Ali Nuhu was the only one at the event who wore a traditional (Hausa) dress. All the other recipients were in suits. The MC gave him a special mention for that.
Well...if you put it this way i realize that there is a difference between recognition and being awarded.
Like the organizers of the event,i don't really follow the industry so i,unlike them, am not in a position to say if the award is justified(or not)...but i maintain Hausa should have been recognized for more original and relevant things.
Well Nuhu's dress code,unlike many of his movies, was original and i comend him for that.
By the way the whole thing about making films is to make money(gain), so if those ppl watching films want ..................all the ALI NUHUS and DAN IBROs DANCING and SINGING, with the karin maganas and all the things that never suits u , all u can do is "DONT WATCH IT".
i think in KANO if u will make a census of ppl that like HAUSA films with all that stuff , u will see is a high ratio. if not they would have been out of business, since!
After all ppl watched indian films b4.............with no concept of d language , so nowdays is much more simpler becus we have "black hausa indians" and ppl dey grab d whole thing.
Go to the south all their films is about "black magic" and all those stupid stuffs of arm robbery etc.
is all about d market.
so i guess we all started with a wrong step.
by the way i vote for DAN IBRO
Hey, i beleive everybody should be free(at least within set limits of religion and decent morality anyway) to watch whatever he feels does it for him/her.y concern is that the medium of 'showbiz' is a profound mass media tool and helps to potray or set concepts or setereotypyes about its subjets.For example for majority of people abroad who don't know the firrst thing about hausaland or its people but have had the misfortune to witness the awards have now subconsiously set in their minds clips of movies they saw at the show or Nuhu in his 'dress' as the quntisential hausa man potraying all of hausa culture and traditions...just as for us who have never been to india or china expect to see people singing and dancing to love songs while running around on the streets of india or fighting each other and practicing diffrents forms of martial arts just to settle simple disputes in china.
Also just as you have pointed out,i all have a subconcious image that our neighbours from 'the south' ALL indulge in 'black magic',ocultism,robery and violence as a second nature,but on the contray i
have been there and seen that the actual situation is far from what we think.