Hausa-language cinema: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Hausa-language film industry of northern Nigeria}}

Kannywood is the [[sobriquet]] for Hausa-language cinema. It is a part of the larger [[Nigerian cinema]], known as [[Nollywood]], which includes other production centres producing films in many other Nigerian languages. The name "Kannywood" is a [[portmanteau]] derived from the city name of [[Kano (city)|'''Kan'''o]] and [[Hollywood (film industry)|Holl'''ywood''']], the center of the [[Cinema of the United States|American film industry]]. "Kannywood" haswas originscoined in the1999 late 1990s, whenby Sunusi Shehu Daneji, publisher of ''Tauraruwa ("Star") Magazine'' createdto capture the termgrowing '''Kannywood'''Hausa andvideo film scene from which thenpoint it became the popular reference term for the film industry in theof Northern Nigeria.<ref>{{Cite Theweb term|last=Focus "Kannywood"|first=Kano was|date=2023-12-11 coined|title=Kannywood inTrajectories 1999,2: threeThe years before the term [[Nollywood]] came about.<ref>{{Cite webMagazines |url=httphttps://nigerianstalkkanofocus.orgcom/20122023/1012/0911/kannywood-thetrajectories-growth2-ofthe-amagazines/ |access-nigeriandate=2024-language05-industry-carmen-mccain-2/11 |titlewebsite=Kannywood,Kano Focus |language=en-US}}</ref> The term preceded the growthlabel of[[Nollywood]] awhich Nigerianoriginated languagewith industry''New –York CarmenTimes'' journalist Norimitsu Onishi in 2001 in referencing the Lagos-based film industry.<ref>{{Cite McCainjournal |last=McCainJedlowski |first=CarmenAlessandro |date=92011-01-01 October|title=When 2012the Nigerian video film industry became “Nollywood”: Naming, branding and the videos’ transnational mobility |url=https://www.academia.edu/5796309/When_the_Nigerian_video_film_industry_became_Nollywood_Naming_branding_and_the_videos_transnational_mobility}}</ref>