Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Ibrahim
Office Phone: 0221/470-3883
Consultation Hours: Monday to Thursday, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, or by arrangement
Task at the Institute
- Hausa Studies Lecturer
Education and Career
- PhD African Studies, University of Cologne; April 2018 – October 2021
- M.A. Theatre and Television, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, June 2015
- BA (Ed) English (Upper Second Class) Bayero University, Kano, December 2010
Research Focus
- African (Hausa) popular culture
- Kannywood film studies and criticism
- African Postcolonial Literature
- Teaching Hausa as a foreign language
- Sociolinguistics
- Media and Islam
Research Stays
- Nigeria
- India
Publications (selected)
- Ibrahim, M. M. and Haruna, A. (2024). Challenging Stereotypes in Nigerian Films: A Case Study of Gumzak’s Maula. In Kafin Hausa Journal of Language, Linguistics and Literature, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 103-114.
- Ibrahim, M. M. (2023). Kannywood: Challenges and Survival in the Time of Pandemic. In African Language and Culture Studies, Issue 5, pp. 175-200.
- Ibrahim, M. M. and Sanda, H. U. (2023). “‘We are immune from censorship’: Contestations among Hausa Muslim Kannywood Audience on YouTube” In Johnson D. and Mohammed A. (Eds.) Interrogating Changes in African Cultures and Traditions Through African Indigenous Language Films. Kano: GidanDabino Publishers. Pp. 31-51.
- Ibrahim, M. M. (2023). ‘Kannywood: An Embattled Hausa Film Industry in “Muslim Northern” Nigeria’ In Rashid, H. and Petersen, K. (Eds.). The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture. Pp. 249-260. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
- Ibrahim, M. M. (2022), ‘Hausa film industry and the “menace” of appropriation of Indian romantic movies’, Journal of African Media Studies, 14:2, pp. 327–39, https://doi.org/10.1386/jams_00081_1
- Ibrahim, M. M. (2021). Kannywood and the Cultural and Linguistic Contestations on Hausa Films. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
- Abdurrahaman, D. T., Owusu, A., Bakare, A. S., Apejoye, A., Ibrahim, M. M., & Ahmad, T. H. (2021). Assessing the effects of Celebrity Endorsements of Political Parties: An empirical study of Nigerian 2019 Presidential Elections. Technium Social Sciences Journal, 22(1), 676–699.
- Ibrahim, M. M. and Yusuf, A. Y. (2020). ‘Don’t say it in public’: Contestations and Negotiations in Northern Nigerian Muslim Cyberspace. In Storch, A. and Nassenstein, N. (Eds.). Swearing and Cursing: Contexts and Practices in a Critical Linguistic Perspective. Pp. 165-184. Berlin: De Gruyter.
- Ibrahim, M. M. (2020). Reconstructing the Muslim-Hausa Cultural Ideology: A Reading of Alkali’s Sumayya. In SARARI Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1., pp. 16 – 34.
- Ibrahim, M. M. (2019) New Horizons: Dadin Kowa and the Restorative Representation of the “Other” in Nigerian Films. In KAKAKI Journal, (11) pp. 81 – 98.
- Ibrahim, M. M. (2019). Fuska Biyu (“Double-faced”). In African Studies Review, Volume 62, Issue 4, December 2019, pp. E33-E34
- Ibrahim, M. M. (2019). Risala (“Message”). In African Studies Review, Volume 62, Issue 4, December 2019, pp. E35-E36.
- Ibrahim, M. M. (2019). Kannywood: Creating a New Film Industry. In Journal of African Films and Diaspora Studies (JAFDIS). Volume 2, Number 1, June 2019, pp 81-94.
- Ibrahim, M. M. and Isma’il, A. M. (2019). India-Hausa Films as a Source of Neologisms in the 21st Century Hausa Language in Pawlak, N. (Ed.). Linguistic Evidence of Cultural Distance: Hausa in Cross-Cultural Communication. Pp. 112-122. Warsaw: Elipsa.
- Isma’il, H. and Ibrahim, M.M. (2019). Online Viewership of Nigerian Films: An analysis of Film Preference Among Nigerians in Diaspora. In Bhadmus, M.O. (Ed.). Gender Politics and Sexuality in the Nigerian Cinema. Pp. 192-201. Ibadan: Spectrum Books Limited.
- Ibrahim, M. M. (2019). Kannywood: Unveiling the Overlooked Hausa Film Industry. Kano: Century Research and Publishing Limited.
- Ibrahim, M. M and Haruna, A. (2018). “Films for Reform: Cinema and the Fight Against Drug Abuse in Northern Nigeria” in Dutse Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 225-239
- Ibrahim, M.M. & Yusuf, A. Y. (2018). “Going Beyond Boundaries: There is a Way and the Use of English Medium in Hausa Film Industry”. CINEJ Cinema Journal, Volume 7.1 (2018). | DOI /cinej.2018.206
- Ibrahim, M. M. (2017). Originality in Absentia: A Study of Kannywood Selected Films. In Abdulraheem, H. I, Aliyu, S. B. and Akano, R. K (Eds.) Literature, Integration and Harmony in Northern Nigeria. Ilorin: Kwara State University Press.
- Ibrahim, M. M. (2016). Trial Makes Perfect: Reading As-Habul Kahfi as a Response to the Critics. In Bhadmus, M.O. (Ed.). The Nigerian Cinema: Reading Nigerian Motion Pictures (pp. 137-150). Ibadan: Spectrum Books Limited.
- Ibrahim, M. M. (2013). ‘Hausa Film: Compatible or Incompatible with Islam?’, Performing Islam 2: 2, pp. 165–179, doi: 10.1386/pi.2.2.165_1
- Ibrahim, M. M. (2012). A Weird Hope (a novel). Kano: Century Research and Publishing Limited.
- Ibrahim, M. M. (2010). “Indelible Scar”. Voices from the Savannah (2010), an anthology of the National Association of Language and Literary Studies, Bayero University, Kano Chapter, volume 3.
Conferences, Workshops and Festivals
- “Kannywood: Creating a New Film Industry” presented at the Kano Indigenous Language of Africa Film Market and Festival (KILAF) in Kano, Nigeria; 13th to 17th November 2018.
- “India-Hausa Films as a Source of Neologism in the 21st Century Hausa Language” presented at the 3rd Symposium on West African Languages (SyWAL 2018), Warsaw, Poland; 26th to 29th September, 2018.
- “Going Beyond Boundaries: The Film, There is a Way and English Medium in Hausa Film Industry” presented at the 48th Colloquium of African Languages and Linguistics at Leiden, The Netherlands, 30th August to 1st September 2018.
- “New Horizons: Dad’inKowa and the Restorative Representation of the “Other” in Nigerian Films” presented at the Africa Studies Association (VAD) conference at Leipzig University, Saxony; 27th – 30th June, 2018.
- Other’s Other Conference held at the Global South Studies Centre, University of Cologne: 25th – 26th September 2017.
- The 10th Conference on Literature in Northern Nigeria Organized by Kwara State University, Malete in conjunction with Bayero University, Kano, 9th - 12th November 2016
- 17th International Theatre Festival of India, Bharat Rang Mahotsav. Organised by and held at National School of Drama, New Delhi, India from 1st – 20th February 2015
- Rapporteur at the National Conference on Translation and Development in Nigeria, organised by the Centre for Research in Nigerian Languages and Folklore in collaboration with the National Institute of Translators and Interpreters (NITI), Bayero University, Kano from 20th – 21st October 2015
- Three-Week Workshop on Himachali Folk Theatre, Choreography, Film and TV Acting and Videography. Organized by North Zone Cultural Centre and Centre for Advanced Media Studies (CAMS), Himachal Pradesh, India from 2nd – 22nd June 2014
- The 7th Conference on Literature in Northern Nigeria Organized by the Department of English and French, Bayero University, Kano, 3rd – 6th December 2012
- Three-Day International Conference and One-Day Summit on Islamic Universities; Islamic Universities: Prospects and Challenges. Organized by International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), Nigeria Office at Mambayya House, BUK, Kano; 14th-18th Sept. 2010
- Management Express Forum: “Strategic Advice to new Businesses in their Critical Early Years” Organized by British Council, at Horizon Hotel, Kano; March 2010