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Writers, Film-makers Defy Censors作家,電影製作違抗檢查員 Sunday, September 14th, 2008 週日, 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,說: ”影片供應商在卡諾的rimi市場時,我要求亞當zango的音樂視頻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,而是一個新的非法物質-豪薩語電影沒有通過卡諾州檢查委員會。 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.視頻光盤,我要求是一個特別熱的藥物:一系列的六音樂錄影帶satirising腐敗歲的男子,慨嘆變幻無常的女朋友,和特色的舞蹈豪薩語女孩。 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.音樂家,亞當zango ,也是一個演員兼導演,在電影業的豪薩語,隨即被捕,並被判入獄3個月內公佈收集期間,禁止豪薩語電影在卡諾。 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.檢查員委員會在尼日利亞北部卡諾州,是建立在2001年後,備受爭議的執行伊斯蘭伊斯蘭教法在卡諾州。 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.)電影製作是在第一,禁止買斷賣斷,但製片人協會,尼日利亞北部( moppan )提出了“回頭看”董事會作為一種妥協措施,從而使該行業繼續下去,雖然與一定的限制,語言,服飾和“關閉跳舞男性與女性之間的“ 。 (五的10法律,特別是與婦女有關的衣物或互動與男子) 。 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.檢查員局和電影業經歷了一個更戲劇性的轉變,在2007年8月,當一個私人移動電話的視頻一個受歡迎的豪薩語演員和她的情人發生性行為被洩露給公眾。 The actress, Maryam “Hiyana”, and the man who had surreptitiously recorded the video immediately went into hiding.演員, maryam “ hiyana ” ,該名男子誰曾暗中錄得的視頻立即前往躲藏起來。 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”.幾天之內,數以百計的黑市企業家在卡諾州,該中心的豪薩語語言的電影業,被收費數以千計的奈拉,看看有什麼被稱為“第一豪薩語藍色電影” 。 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.憤怒的宗教和政治領袖呼籲無限期中止的卡諾電影業及大規模驅逐其他演員涉嫌“不當”行為。 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,卡諾州檢查委員會的領導下,其新的總幹事,阿布巴卡爾rabo abdulkarim ,已發出新的,更嚴格的指引,兩位導演和作家在該國。 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條的檢查規例指出, “任何人誰…公開展出任何不雅的階段,顯示或表現,發揮或任何顯示或表現趨於腐敗公共道德,即屬犯罪,並判處監禁3個月或一罰款,或雙方如監禁和罰款“ 。 The imprisonment clause has been put into effect several times.第監禁已付諸實施幾倍。 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.除了亞當zango ,誰被囚禁在2007年9月,創業豪薩語主任和前卡諾州州長候選人hamisu拉米iyan多摩被判入獄後的副本,他的電影tsintsiya被扣押從視頻店在卡諾在2008年5月。 He was accused of not registering his company Iyan Tama Multimedia with the censorship board.他被指控不登記,他的公司iyan多摩多媒體與檢查委員會。 (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. (一宗法庭案件顯示,該公司已,事實上,登記,並支付所需的費用) 。諷刺的是,主任被逮捕的當天,他返回從祖馬電影節在阿布賈舉行的地方tsintsiya贏得了一個獎最佳影片獎的社會問題。 The new censorship regime has had the effect of suppressing Hausa filmmaking in Kano, Northern Nigeria’s largest city.新的檢查制度,已影響打壓豪薩語電影在卡諾州,尼日利亞北部最大的城市。 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.確切的大小是業界難以確定,但2002年的研究,由國家局檢查員清點133豪薩語製作之間的1月和8月的這一年,使豪薩語電影業的第二位大小只有約魯巴語。 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.雖然電影製作人仍然是做後期製作在卡諾,地點已轉移到周邊國家,大多數目前正在拍攝在鄰近的卡杜納州。 Filmmakers bypass the Kano State Censors Board by marking “Not for sale in Kano” on their films and selling them in other states.電影製片人繞過卡諾州檢查員董事會通過標記“不出售在卡諾”對他們的電影和出售他們在其他國家。 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.之後,流亡的豪薩語電影製作現場,從卡諾州,馬蘭rabo ,總幹事檢查員局,把他注意的作家在該國。 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.上週五, 8月8日,小冊子,從神秘的“組織的伊斯蘭價值觀保護” ,主要分佈在清真寺周圍的卡諾州,聲稱作家在卡諾州是代理商,外國人在陰謀破壞伊斯蘭養育子女和促進不道德的。 The flier specifically called for the restraint of Ibrahim Sheme, an award winning Hausa novelist to be “restrained”.飛特別呼籲克制易卜拉欣格式,屢獲殊榮的豪薩語小說家,以“克制” 。 According to his blog, Sheme has also received anonymous death threats.根據他的博客,格式還收到了匿名的死亡威脅。 The standoff between writers and the censorship board is escalating.對峙之間的作家和檢查委員會是升級。 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.信中向五作家團體在卡諾的日期8月12日證實,第一次提出的要求,在6月5日為每個作家在該國登記,單獨與董事會,才可以公佈或分發書面答复。 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單協會會員,生物數據和過去出版物的每一個成員,和個體主體的檔案,以創造為每個作者。 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.在作出回應時,作家協會的領導下, ADO的艾哈邁德gidan dabino ,主席卡諾協會尼日利亞作家,到“罷工” ,為三個星期。 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.”罷工結束, 8月16日,與作家的協會有前途的,在一般的公報指出, “下週新商品將充斥市場” 。 In an email update to the Association of Nigerian Authors, Dr Yusuf Adamu called on members to demand Rabo’s sacking.在一封電子郵件,更新該協會的尼日利亞作家,醫生優素福阿達姆所謂的對成員的需求rabo的裁員。 “Write in the papers please, people write… Those of you from the north should please write to your State Governors and complain about it.” “寫在文件中,請人寫…那些你從北方應請寫信給貴國的省長和抱怨” 。 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.後一8月25日的會議與國家和國家領導人的全日空,檢查董事會同意以需要註冊的作家團體,而非個人。 Novelist Sa’adatu Baba speaks passionately against the censorship board, “I want the governor of Kano State to sack Malam Rabo from his seat.小說家sa'adatu巴巴發言慷慨激昂對檢查委員會, “我希望總督的卡諾州,以布包馬拉姆rabo從他的座位。 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.”我們需要一個合理的人,一個人誰尊重文學,一個人誰可以評判我們雙方作家和電影製片人,因為我知道,如果我們有有人誰喜歡文學,他做不到這一點給我們“ 。 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.她的熱情是在呼應的反應,其他的藝術家,從卡諾全日空主席艾哈邁德ADO的gidan dabino ,誰也說,在接受電台採訪時認為,政府應建立一個新翼的監獄作家,納齊爾“ ziriums ” hausawa ,髖關節合音樂家誰錄一首歌,要求上帝派遣瘟疫的樁柱向那些誰,讓他們從生產他們的藝術。 Adam.亞當。 Zango has responded to his 2007 imprisonment with a new song calling Rabo a donkey. zango作出了回應,他2007年監禁了一個新的宋要求rabo一驢。 Such songs are banned from the radio, but pass virally from handset to handset.這樣的歌曲被禁止在電台,但通過virally從手機到手機。 The suppression of creativity in Nigeria is hardly a new phenomenon.鎮壓的創造力在尼日利亞是難以一種新的現象。 Writers have been imprisoned and even executed like novelist and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.作家已被囚禁,甚至被處決一樣,小說家和活動家肯薩羅-維瓦。 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.不過,受歡迎的想像力結合顛覆的可能性,這種新技術的指向是不可能的任務,所進行檢查委員會。 Filmmakers travel out of state to film and bring the digital tapes back in to edit, taking them back out of state to market.電影製片人旅行了國家的電影,並把數碼錄音帶早在編輯,他們回到了國家的市場。 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,不斷從上發表文章在當地報紙上,重複的情緒,對博客,並通過數碼照片的書信與檢查員通過電子郵件listserves 。 Bus drivers plaster the windows of their ramshackle vehicles with stickers of “porn-star” Hiyana.巴士司機石膏的窗口,其搖搖欲墜的車輛貼紙, “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.年輕的人舉出看電影作為靈感,使用他們的電話記錄會話與腐敗的講師和權威的數字,誰揭露他們,然後作為偽君子。 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.在克拉倫登講座,鑑於在牛津大學在1996年,前身是被監禁的肯尼亞小說家恩古吉華thiong'o theorised說,而國家的目的,沉默候補委員的故事, “藝術嘗試還原的聲音,向土地。 It tries to give voice back to the silenced”.它試圖讓聲音回到了沉默“ 。 In Northern Nigeria , despite state-sponsored bans, book burnings, and imprisonments, it is becoming difficult to silence those voices in the first place.在尼日利亞北部,儘管國家贊助的禁令,焚燒書籍,和監禁,它正成為難以沉默的聲音,那些擺在首位。 (END/2008) ( end/2008 ) Have Your Say: Writers, Film-makers Defy Censors 你說:作家,電影製作違抗檢查員 Please read our請閱讀我們的 posting guidelines before posting發布指引,然後再發布 . 。 Alternatively或者 you can discuss this report here您可以討論此報告在這裡 . 。 Related News 相關新聞
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