Abdalla Uba Adamu Full CV

Prof. Dr. Abdalla Uba Adamu
Professor of Media and Cultural Communication
Professor of Science Education and Curriculum Development
Department of Mass Communications
Bayero University, Kano, NIGERIA

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B.Sc. (ABU, 1979), M.A. (Lond, 1983), D.Phil. (Sussex, 1988)
Department of Mass Communications
Faculty of Social and Management Sciences
Bayero University, Kano, NIGERIA

Summary

Prof. Dr. Abdalla Uba Adamu, holds double professorships in Science Education (1997) and Media and Cultural Communication (2012) from Bayero University Kano, Nigeria.

His main research focus is on transnational media flows and their impact on the transformation of Muslim Hausa popular culture especially in literature, film, music and performing arts. He is the creator of the Foundation for Hausa Performing Arts (Kano, Nigeria) whose main focus is archiving traditional performing arts heritage of the Muslim Hausa. He has also developed courses on digital cultures and promotes netnography as a research methodology in documenting Hausa media ethnographies. He is the Chairman of a research cluster based in Bayero University Kano that discusses issues of Visual Anthropology.

He was a Fulbright African Senior Research Scholar, and had his residency at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, from 1991-1992. This led to his first major book, Reform and Adaptation in Nigerian University Curricula, 1960-1992: Living on the Credit Line (Edwin Mellen Press, 1994). He was also awarded a place on the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Resident Fellows program at the Bellagio Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, October to November 1993.

In 2012 he was appointed European Union Visiting Professor for the project 'The Modern University' at the Department of African Languages and Cultures, University of Warsaw, Poland from 1st March to 31st May 2012. At Warsaw, he taught two highly popular courses:Transnationalism and African Popular Culture, and Oral Traditions in Local and Global Contexts. He also coordinated a research collaboration, ‘Passages of Culture’ between German and African Universities sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation from 2009-2013.

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