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La culture, mode d'expression artistique et ethnographique de la condition humaine, est bien représentée dans le cinéma, considéré ici comme un divertissement, mais aussi comme un moyen de préserver un patrimoine culturel. La production cinémato graphique a généralement un but lucratif mais, dans les cultures cinématographiques africaines, cela se fait souvent au détriment du potentiel artistique du patrimoine culturel. Cet article examine comment la production cinématographique haoussa dans le Nord du Nigeria est devenue une marchandise, aux dépens de la préservation culturelle et artistique du patrimoine culturel haoussa. À l'aide de données récoltées auprès de distributeurs de films à Kano, dans le Nord du Nigeria, il explore de manière historique comment les forces du marché déterminent l'avenir de la production de films dans la région.

The virtual addiction of Muslim Hausa youth to Indian films has a long history, which stretched to the first Indian films screen in northern Nigerian cinemas in the 1960s. The cultural convergence between what the Hausa see as representations of Indian cultural behavior – in terms of social mores, dressing, social interaction – all served to create what they perceive as a convergence between Indian 'culure' and Muslim Hausa culture. This paper traces the evolutionary attachment of the Hausa to Indian films and culture. In particular, it traces the various ways through Hausa youth use various devices to adopt, or adapt Indian popoular culture to suit their own re-worked creative pursuits. As a study of transnational fandom, it provides vital insight into how cultural spaces are collapsed, despite spatial and religious spaces.

Studies of the media in Africa, incorporating both African and international perspectives, are few. The thirty papers collected here were presented at a seminar organised and hosted by the Kenya-based Twaweza Communications and the International African Institute in Nairobi in 2004. They demonstrate how media outlets are used to perpetuate, question or modify the unequal power relations between the North and the South. Focusing on east Africa, the papers include discussions of the construction of old and new social entities, as defined by class, gender, ethnicity, political and economic differences, wealth, poverty, cultural behaviour, language and religion. The authors illustrate how there is increasing control by local people of traditional and modern forms of media. Globalization is being countered by local responses, within the context of social and cultural identities. Essentially, the book describes the tensions between the global and the local, tensions not often discussed in media studies, thus pioneering new debates