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Writers, Film-makers Defy Censors作家,电影制作违抗检查员 Sunday, September 14th, 2008 周日, 2008年9月14日 IPS的IPS | “I don’t sell cocaine,” says the video vendor in Kano’s Rimi market when I ask for Adam Zango’s music video CD Bahaushiya. | “我不出售可卡因,说: ”影片供应商在卡诺的rimi市场时,我要求亚当zango的音乐视频CD bahaushiya 。 He is not referring to the white powder, but instead a new illegal substance — Hausa films that have not passed through the Kano State Censors Board. 他是不是指白色粉末,而是一个新的非法物质-豪萨语电影没有通过卡诺州检查委员会。 The video CD I’m asking for is an especially hot drug: a series of six music videos satirising corrupt old men, lamenting fickle girlfriends, and featuring dancing Hausa girls.视频光盘,我要求是一个特别热的药物:一系列的六音乐录影带satirising腐败岁的男子,慨叹变幻无常的女朋友,和特色的舞蹈豪萨语女孩。 The musician, Adam Zango, also an actor and director in the Hausa film industry, was arrested and jailed for three months for releasing the collection during a ban on Hausa filmmaking in Kano.音乐家,亚当zango ,也是一个演员兼导演,在电影业的豪萨语,随即被捕,并被判入狱3个月内公布收集期间,禁止豪萨语电影在卡诺。 The censors board in Nigeria’s northern Kano State was instituted in 2001 after the controversial implementation of Islamic shari’a law in Kano State.检查员委员会在尼日利亚北部卡诺州,是建立在2001年后,备受争议的执行伊斯兰伊斯兰教法在卡诺州。 Film-making was at first banned outright, but the filmmakers’ association of Northern Nigeria (MOPPAN) suggested a “review” board as a compromise measure, which allowed the industry to continue, though with certain restrictions on language, dress and “close dancing between men and women.” (Five of the ten laws were specifically related to women’s clothing or interaction with men.)电影制作是在第一,禁止买断卖断,但制片人协会,尼日利亚北部( moppan )提出了“回头看”董事会作为一种妥协措施,从而使该行业继续下去,虽然与一定的限制,语言,服饰和“关闭跳舞男性与女性之间的“ 。 (五的10法律,特别是与妇女有关的衣物或互动与男子) 。 The censors board and the film industry underwent an even more dramatic transformation in August 2007, when a private mobile phone video of a popular Hausa actress and her lover having sex was leaked to the public.检查员局和电影业经历了一个更戏剧性的转变,在2007年8月,当一个私人移动电话的视频一个受欢迎的豪萨语演员和她的情人发生性行为被泄露给公众。 The actress, Maryam “Hiyana”, and the man who had surreptitiously recorded the video immediately went into hiding.演员, maryam “ hiyana ” ,该名男子谁曾暗中录得的视频立即前往躲藏起来。 Within days, hundreds of black market entrepreneurs in Kano, the centre of the Hausa-language film industry, were charging thousands of naira to see what was being called “the first Hausa blue film”.几天之内,数以百计的黑市企业家在卡诺州,该中心的豪萨语语言的电影业,被收费数以千计的奈拉,看看有什么被称为“第一豪萨语蓝色电影” 。 Outraged religious and political leaders called for an indefinite suspension of the Kano film industry and the mass expulsion of other performers suspected of “improper” behavior.愤怒的宗教和政治领袖呼吁无限期中止的卡诺电影业及大规模驱逐其他演员涉嫌“不当”行为。 By late September, the Kano State Censorship Board, under the leadership of its new Director General, Abubakar Rabo Abdulkarim, had issued new, stricter guidelines to both filmmakers and writers in the state. 9月下旬,卡诺州检查委员会的领导下,其新的总干事,阿布巴卡尔rabo abdulkarim ,已发出新的,更严格的指引,两位导演和作家在该国。 Article 97 of the censorship regulations states that “Any person who… publicly exhibits any indecent stage show or performance, play or any show or performance tending to corrupt public morals, is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for 3 months or to a fine or to both such imprisonment and fine.”第97条的检查规例指出, “任何人谁…公开展出任何不雅的阶段,显示或表现,发挥或任何显示或表现趋于腐败公共道德,即属犯罪,并判处监禁3个月或一罚款,或双方如监禁和罚款“ 。 The imprisonment clause has been put into effect several times.第监禁已付诸实施几倍。 Besides Adam Zango, who was imprisoned in September 2007, pioneering Hausa director and former Kano State gubernatorial candidate Hamisu Lamido Iyan Tama was jailed after copies of his film Tsintsiya were impounded from a video shop in Kano in May 2008.除了亚当zango ,谁被囚禁在2007年9月,创业豪萨语主任和前卡诺州州长候选人hamisu拉米iyan多摩被判入狱后的副本,他的电影tsintsiya被扣押从视频店在卡诺在2008年5月。 He was accused of not registering his company Iyan Tama Multimedia with the censorship board.他被指控不登记,他的公司iyan多摩多媒体与检查委员会。 (A court case reveals that the company had, in fact, registered and paid the required fees.) Ironically, the director was arrested the day of his return from the Zuma Film Festival in Abuja where Tsintsiya had won an award for Best Film on Social Issue. (一宗法庭案件显示,该公司已,事实上,登记,并支付所需的费用) 。讽刺的是,主任被逮捕的当天,他返回从祖马电影节在阿布贾举行的地方tsintsiya赢得了一个奖最佳影片奖的社会问题。 The new censorship regime has had the effect of suppressing Hausa filmmaking in Kano, Northern Nigeria’s largest city.新的检查制度,已影响打压豪萨语电影在卡诺州,尼日利亚北部最大的城市。 The exact size of the industry is hard to determine, but a 2002 study by the national censors board counted 133 Hausa films produced between January and August of that year, making the Hausa film industry second in size only to Yoruba.确切的大小是业界难以确定,但2002年的研究,由国家局检查员清点133豪萨语制作之间的1月和8月的这一年,使豪萨语电影业的第二位大小只有约鲁巴语。 Although filmmakers are still doing post-production in Kano, locations have been moved to neighboring states, the majority now being shot in neighbouring Kaduna State.虽然电影制作人仍然是做后期制作在卡诺,地点已转移到周边国家,大多数目前正在拍摄在邻近的卡杜纳州。 Filmmakers bypass the Kano State Censors Board by marking “Not for sale in Kano” on their films and selling them in other states.电影制片人绕过卡诺州检查员董事会通过标记“不出售在卡诺”对他们的电影和出售他们在其他国家。 Following the exodus of the Hausa film-making scene from Kano State, Malam Rabo, the director general of the censors board, turned his attention to the writers in the state.之后,流亡的豪萨语电影制作现场,从卡诺州,马兰rabo ,总干事检查员局,把他注意的作家在该国。 On Friday, Aug. 8, pamphlets from a mysterious “Organization for Islamic Values Protection” were distributed in the mosques around Kano claiming that writers in Kano State are agents of foreigners in a plot to destroy the Islamic upbringing of children and promote immorality.上周五, 8月8日,小册子,从神秘的“组织的伊斯兰价值观保护” ,主要分布在清真寺周围的卡诺州,声称作家在卡诺州是代理商,外国人在阴谋破坏伊斯兰养育子女和促进不道德的。 The flier specifically called for the restraint of Ibrahim Sheme, an award winning Hausa novelist to be “restrained”.飞特别呼吁克制易卜拉欣格式,屡获殊荣的豪萨语小说家,以“克制” 。 According to his blog, Sheme has also received anonymous death threats.根据他的博客,格式还收到了匿名的死亡威胁。 The standoff between writers and the censorship board is escalating.对峙之间的作家和检查委员会是升级。 A letter directed to the five writers’ organisations in Kano dated Aug. 12 confirmed a request first made in Jun. 5 for each writer in the state to register individually with the board before they can publish or distribute writing.信中向五作家团体在卡诺的日期8月12日证实,第一次提出的要求,在6月5日为每个作家在该国登记,单独与董事会,才可以公布或分发书面答复。 The requirements included submission of a comprehensive list of association membership, bio-data and past publications of every member, and individual subject files to be created for each author.要求包括提交一份全面的名单协会会员,生物数据和过去出版物的每一个成员,和个体主体的档案,以创造为每个作者。 In response, the writers’ associations, under the leadership of Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino, chairman of Kano Association of Nigerian Authors, went “on strike” for three weeks.在作出回应时,作家协会的领导下, ADO的艾哈迈德gidan dabino ,主席卡诺协会尼日利亚作家,到“罢工” ,为三个星期。 The strike ended on Aug. 16, with the writer’s associations promising, in a general communiqué, that “by next week new titles would flood the market.”罢工结束, 8月16日,与作家的协会有前途的,在一般的公报指出, “下周新商品将充斥市场” 。 In an email update to the Association of Nigerian Authors, Dr Yusuf Adamu called on members to demand Rabo’s sacking.在一封电子邮件,更新该协会的尼日利亚作家,医生优素福阿达姆所谓的对成员的需求rabo的裁员。 “Write in the papers please, people write… Those of you from the north should please write to your State Governors and complain about it.” “写在文件中,请人写…那些你从北方应请写信给贵国的省长和抱怨” 。 After an Aug. 25 meeting with both state and national leaders of the ANA, the censorship board agreed to require registration of writers’ associations rather than individuals.后一8月25日的会议与国家和国家领导人的全日空,检查董事会同意以需要注册的作家团体,而非个人。 Novelist Sa’adatu Baba speaks passionately against the censorship board, “I want the governor of Kano State to sack Malam Rabo from his seat.小说家sa'adatu巴巴发言慷慨激昂对检查委员会, “我希望总督的卡诺州,以布包马拉姆rabo从他的座位。 We need a reasonable person, a person who respects literature, a person who can judge us both writers and filmmakers, because I know that if we have somebody who loves literature, he cannot do this to us.”我们需要一个合理的人,一个人谁尊重文学,一个人谁可以评判我们双方作家和电影制片人,因为我知道,如果我们有有人谁喜欢文学,他做不到这一点给我们“ 。 Her passion is echoed in the responses of other artists, from Kano ANA chair Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino, who has said in a radio interview that the government should build a new wing of the prison for writers, to Nazir “Ziriums” Hausawa, a hip hop musician who recorded a song requesting God to send plagues of piles to those who keep them from producing their art.她的热情是在呼应的反应,其他的艺术家,从卡诺全日空主席艾哈迈德ADO的gidan dabino ,谁也说,在接受电台采访时认为,政府应建立一个新翼的监狱作家,纳齐尔“ ziriums ” hausawa ,髋关节合音乐家谁录一首歌,要求上帝派遣瘟疫的桩柱向那些谁,让他们从生产他们的艺术。 Adam.亚当。 Zango has responded to his 2007 imprisonment with a new song calling Rabo a donkey. zango作出了回应,他2007年监禁了一个新的宋要求rabo一驴。 Such songs are banned from the radio, but pass virally from handset to handset.这样的歌曲被禁止在电台,但通过virally从手机到手机。 The suppression of creativity in Nigeria is hardly a new phenomenon.镇压的创造力在尼日利亚是难以一种新的现象。 Writers have been imprisoned and even executed like novelist and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.作家已被囚禁,甚至被处决一样,小说家和活动家肯萨罗-维瓦。 However, the popular imagination combined with the subversive possibilities of such new technologies point to the impossibility of the task undertaken by the Censorship Board.不过,受欢迎的想象力结合颠覆的可能性,这种新技术的指向是不可能的任务,所进行检查委员会。 Filmmakers travel out of state to film and bring the digital tapes back in to edit, taking them back out of state to market.电影制片人旅行了国家的电影,并把数码录音带早在编辑,他们回到了国家的市场。 Writers, kept from publishing articles in local newspapers, repeat sentiments on blogs and pass digital photos of correspondence with the censors via email listserves.作家,不断从上发表文章在当地报纸上,重复的情绪,对博客,并通过数码照片的书信与检查员通过电子邮件listserves 。 Bus drivers plaster the windows of their ramshackle vehicles with stickers of “porn-star” Hiyana.巴士司机石膏的窗口,其摇摇欲坠的车辆贴纸, “色情明星” hiyana 。 Young people cite watching movies as inspiration for using their phones to record conversations with corrupt lecturers and authority figures who they then expose as hypocrites.年轻的人举出看电影作为灵感,使用他们的电话记录会话与腐败的讲师和权威的数字,谁揭露他们,然后作为伪君子。 In the Clarendon lectures given at Oxford University in 1996, formerly imprisoned Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o theorised that whereas the state seeks to silence alternate stories, “art tries to restore voices to the land.在克拉伦登讲座,鉴于在牛津大学在1996年,前身是被监禁的肯尼亚小说家恩古吉华thiong'o theorised说,而国家的目的,沉默候补委员的故事, “艺术尝试还原的声音,向土地。 It tries to give voice back to the silenced”.它试图让声音回到了沉默“ 。 In Northern Nigeria , despite state-sponsored bans, book burnings, and imprisonments, it is becoming difficult to silence those voices in the first place.在尼日利亚北部,尽管国家赞助的禁令,焚烧书籍,和监禁,它正成为难以沉默的声音,那些摆在首位。 (END/2008) ( end/2008 ) Have Your Say: Writers, Film-makers Defy Censors 你说:作家,电影制作违抗检查员 Please read our请阅读我们的 posting guidelines before posting发布指引,然后再发布 . 。 Alternatively或者 you can discuss this report here您可以讨论此报告在这里 . 。 Related News 相关新闻
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