The Portrayal of Hausa norms and Values in Kamal’s Hausa Girl
Abstract
The paper examines the perception of Hausa values, norms, and culture as
presented in Kamal’s Hausa Girl, in which the author distorts the nature and
basic norms and values that extensively frame the socio-cultural and religious
attributes of the Hausa community. This is aimed at achieving a predetermined
resolution, using the actress as bait to blacken the image of the Hausa movie
industry as culturally and religiously destructive. The objective of this paper is
to demonstrate how the actress becomes a dupe of textual deception, rather
than being created by it. The paper deploys the ideas of Cultural Materialism in
its analysis of the text. It concludes that Hausa Girl is replete with over
refinement, contradictions, and misrepresentations of the socio-cultural and
religious norms of traditional Hausa society, which had a preconceived
objective. It also manifests how historical factors, political dynamics, and
power struggles between the religious class and the Hausa film industry shaped
the form and content of the text.
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Rasheed, A. K. (2026). The Portrayal of Hausa norms and Values in Kamal’s Hausa Girl. Rumfa Journal of Arts, Vol. 4(No. 2), 100–113. https://doi.org/10.5281/rumfa.2026.6257
Anas Kabir Rasheed. "The Portrayal of Hausa norms and Values in Kamal’s Hausa Girl." Rumfa Journal of Arts, vol. Vol. 4, no. No. 2, 2026, pp. 100–113, https://doi.org/10.5281/rumfa.2026.6257
Anas Kabir Rasheed. "The Portrayal of Hausa norms and Values in Kamal’s Hausa Girl." Rumfa Journal of Arts Vol. 4, no. No. 2 (2026): 100–113. https://doi.org/10.5281/rumfa.2026.6257
Rasheed, A. K. 2026, 'The Portrayal of Hausa norms and Values in Kamal’s Hausa Girl', Rumfa Journal of Arts, vol. Vol. 4, no. No. 2, pp. 100–113, available at:
Anas Kabir Rasheed, "The Portrayal of Hausa norms and Values in Kamal’s Hausa Girl," Rumfa Journal of Arts, vol. Vol. 4, no. No. 2, pp. 100–113, 2026, doi: 10.5281/rumfa.2026.6257
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