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KILAF 2024 Film Festival: BUK to Establish Centre for Archiving, Preserving Indigenous Films

BySani Magaji Garko

Nov 25, 2024

Bayero University Kano (BUK) is set to establish a Centre for Archiving and Preserving Films, with a particular focus on Kannywood productions.

The announcement was made during the Kano Indigenous Languages of Africa Film Market and Festival (KILAF24) conference, themed “Forging Cultural Identities in a Multicultural Africa: The Role of Indigenous Language Films.”

Professor Sageer Adamu Abbas, the Vice Chancellor of BUK, represented by Professor Dambatta, made the announcement during the conference.

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He highlighted the significance of the KILAF24 conference as a platform to discuss critical issues. “This provides us with another opportunity to discuss critical issues. As usual, KILAF24 is in African languages,” said Abbas.

The partnership between BUK and the film industry began in 2021, aimed at fostering social relevance between academics and practitioners. “It supports a conducive environment for intellectual discussions. Moving Image, on its part, has gone the extra mile to ensure that the conference holds annually,” Abbas added.

He also noted that his administration had directed the Faculty of Communications to establish a research centre for archiving and preserving Kannywood films.

The Dean of the Faculty of Communications, Prof. Umar Faruk Jibril, welcomed attendees and emphasized the importance of the blossoming film industry in Africa and the world. “BUK and Moving Image have consolidated a partnership for over four years, despite the tough economic challenges Nigeria is facing.

The partnership has continued from strength to strength, with Moving Image providing financial support and BUK providing the conducive atmosphere,” Jibril stated.

Abdulkareem Ibrahim, Head of KILAF and CEO of Moving Image, stressed the importance of maintaining cultural identity through indigenous languages. “KILAF is the answer not to lose our own identity because language is the vehicle of culture and through languages we maintain our own identity,” Ibrahim said.

He emphasized the importance of encouraging the youth to produce films in their native languages to preserve cultural heritage.

The two-day conference attracted participants from various parts of Nigeria and other African nations, further underscoring the importance of indigenous language films in forging cultural identities in a multilingual Africa.

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