{"id":3751,"date":"2010-10-07T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibrahimsheme.com\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2010-10-07T05:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T05:09:00","slug":"controversy-over-book-dedicated-to-adamu-yusuf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibrahimsheme.net\/?p=3751","title":{"rendered":"Controversy Over Book Dedicated To Adamu Yusuf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<em>creme de la creme<\/em>&nbsp;of the Northern society is expected to grace the launch of a book written in honour of well known BBC Hausa reporter in Nigeria, the late Alhaji Adamu Yusuf, in Kaduna on Sunday, October 3, 2010. Authored by a journalist, Kabir Haruna Alfa, the book is titled&nbsp;<em>Broadcast Media and Development in Northern Nigeria: A Tribute to the Life and Times of Adamu Yusuf<\/em>, and was published this year by Skill Concepts Limited, Kaduna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has 305 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, a university lecturer in Katsina is claiming that the author of the book played a fast one on him by stealing ideas for the book from his own unpublished biography of Adamu Yusuf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The launch, to be accompanied by a memorial lecture on the late journalist, has been scheduled to take place at Arewa House in the morning. Former military president, an associate of the late Adamu, is scheduled to chair the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alhaji Musa Ujah, chairman of the governing board of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), is the chief launcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other dignitaries expected at the venue include Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo, former national security adviser Gen. Aliyu Mohammed Gusau; the Galadima of Kano, Alhaji Tijjani Hashim; chairman of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Alhaji Abubakar Jijiwa, and the Danmasani of Kano, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Shehu Idris, will serve as the royal father of the day while the governor of Kaduna State, Mr Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, is the chief host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book of six chapters dwells largely on the role the broadcast media played in the development of Nigeria from the colonial times to the present-day. It traces the history of broadcasting in the country and the evolution of radio and television, as well as other media, in the northern part of the country. There is a chapter on contemporary electronic media of communication brought about by the coming of the internet and how this revolutionised the nation\u2019s media system. Another chapter takes a look at the role of the print media, especially after independence in 1960, in the North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book is an important contribution to the study of the media system in Nigeria, especially its transformation from being a government-controlled tool to a liberalised one in which the larger populace could have a say. It also shows us how the modern media of communication as exemplified in radio and television was used in mass mobilisation for government\u2019s developmental programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only one chapter is dedicated to Adamu Yusuf, a very popular Kaduna resident who became kind of iconoclastic in the area of philanthrophy. Before his sudden death on August 2, 1997, he was like a one-man army of goodwill, rendering help to people of every class, creed and gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in 1961, Adamu had worked at the New Nigerian Newspapers, Kaduna, where he cut his teeth as a journalist on the staff of the vernacular Gaskiya Ta Fi Kwabo. He later became a hard working and talented reporter for the BBC Hausa service. By the time of his death, he had become a well-connected power broker and a wealthy person who always remembered his grass to grace rise and was keen to render assistance to those who needed it &#8211; the high and the low. His death was a big blow to all those who knew him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday\u2019s gathering is expected to attract many of those whose paths crossed that of the late Adamu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The silver lining in the cloud of the elaborate arrangement for the book launch, however, is the claim by a former confidante of Adamu Yusuf, Dr Aliyu Ibrahim Kankara of Umaru Musa Yar\u2019Adua University, Katsina, that Alfa\u2019s book is based on his own biography of the late broadcast journalist. He says that he had a deal with author Alfa, who collected his book, which was completed during Yusuf\u2019s life time, under an agreement that a single volume would be produced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a strongly worded appeal to Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and those supporting the book launch, Kankara requested them to back out because the project is based on an injustice meted out to him. He calls his letter, \u201cUsing Adamu Yusuf\u2019s Tribute To Double Deal: An Urgent Letter To Gen. IBB, Tijjani Hashim and Others.\u201d Excerpts:<br>\u201cIt is high time the authorities enacted laws to stop gathering people for book launchings. It doesn\u2019t pay today because we are destroying our youths, depriving them of their intelligence and creativity, we are rather training them to be thieves and corrupt leaders. Book launch today is a crime because it is only meant to enrich somebody without passing through some stages to experience bitter life. How can our youths then think of bringing a better society?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI could recall this nascent book launch gathering began in the IBB era, and even the rubbish and not-up-to-standard, unnecessary write-ups are today publically presented, thus killing the literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn 1998, the late Adamu Yusuf BBC invited me to write his biography. Initially, I rejected the offer, but later I discovered it was really a good enterprise, considering the philanthropic nature and messianic appearances Adamu had in his society. I moved to welcome the venture. The very day I started interviewing him was the date General Abacha died; that was on Monday, 8\/8\/1998, I can never forget. Hajiya Hauwa, his wife, served us breakfast while we were in his office. From thence, it took me about 9 years to complete the biography, almost 19 days to the fateful day when we lost him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShortly before he died, I saw Badamasi Burji (Concern magazine publisher) in (Adamu\u2019s) house twice, and was told that he was my co-author, who was also writing an English version of the same biography. When I confronted Adamu, he replied that initially he had me again in mind to translate the book into English when I finished, but since Burji was interested he allowed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter Adamu\u2019s death, I struggled to publish the book but was asked by Burji to hand over the book to him, saying there was somebody, Kabir Haruna Alfa, who was also interested in our merging the three works together into one. Without any hesitation, I accepted. Burji sent Alfa to Katsina and collected my book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI came to know nothing about the book again, but occasionally called Burji to know what was going on. Unknown to us, Alfa was using us to reach out to Adamu\u2019s people, whom we had interviewed some years earlier and already established contact with the like of General IBB, Hajiya Laila Dogonyaro, Musa Uja, Col. Habibu Shu\u2019aibu, Galadiman Kano, General Buhari, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Saifullahi Muntaka Coomasie, Sule Kofar Sauri, etc. Many others are now dead, like Alhaji Garba Dan Shagamu. In fact, Alfa was introduced to Adamu\u2019s wife and other members of his family by Burji. What split them was when Alfa asked Burji to give him introductory letters to Adamu\u2019s men to seek for money for the printing of the book. Burji refused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLater, Alfa went personally and met them one by one&#8230; He suddenly came out with a skeletal, handy and foolish pieces of writing, attributing them to the late BBC correspondent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWere the three of us writing a book on Adamu for future Nigerians to emulate his reputation or are we writing just to grab money from people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGeneral IBB, Col. Habibu, Musa Uja and others should know that I, Aliyu Ibrahim Kankara, and Badamasi Shu\u2019aibu Burji were the only writers authorized by the late Adamu to write his biography. Alfa did not know Adamu or anything about him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his response to Kankara\u2019s charges, however, Alfa has dismissed them as untrue. He told LEADERSHIP that he was aware of the university lecturer\u2019s claims but that he had the full backing of Adamu Yusuf\u2019s family to write the book. He said he did not have any deal with Kankara, but admitted that he had worked on the book with Burji who sent him to Katsina to collect the manuscript produced by Kankara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alfa added that he spoke with Kankara only once since he collected the manuscript. According to him, when he and Yusuf\u2019s family noticed that both Kankara and Burji had lost interest in the project, he was permitted by the family to forge ahead alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The author emphasised that he did not use any material from Kankara\u2019s manuscript and that he gave the manuscript to Burji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both parties have threatened to take legal action against one another \u2013 one to enforce rights on copyright infringement and the other to claim damages for character assassination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burji, the publisher of Kano-based Concern magazine, also spoke to LEADERSHIP on the matter, arguing that what Kankara says is the truth. He said Alfa, who is the magazine\u2019s Abuja correspondent, requested him to support his desire to write a biography of Adamu Yusuf. Therefore, he took him to the late journalist\u2019s house and introduced him to Hajiya Hauwa, Adamu\u2019s wife who had known him as her husband\u2019s friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Burji, Hauwa eventually signed an agreement with the three authors \u2013 Burji, Kankara and Alfa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burji said he was the one that collected the necessary documents and CDs from Adamu\u2019s wife and handed them over to Alfa. \u201cBut it later dawned on me that he had never intended to write the book in collaboration with us,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause ever since he got hold of those documents, he bever allowed me to see them again. He kept giving me excuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was the one who introduced Alfa to Adamu Yusuf\u2019s family, Alhaji Musa Uja and Col. Habibu Shu\u2019aibu who facilitated our visit to Gen. Babangida, as well as to Sa\u2019idu Sanusi (editor of Kano-based Freedom Express newspaper), who edited the book for him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He dismissed Alfa\u2019s claim that Burji and Kankara later lost interest in the work. He also denied that Alfa had given Kankara\u2019s manuscript to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burji alleged that Alfa\u2019s sole motive for writing the book was money-making, hence his rush to produce the book within a short period of time and launch it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published in LEADERSHIP, on Friday, October 1, 2010<\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div><p id=\"pvc_stats_3751\" class=\"pvc_stats total_only  \" data-element-id=\"3751\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.0\" viewBox=\"0 0 502 315\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\"><g transform=\"translate(0,332) scale(0.1,-0.1)\" fill=\"\" stroke=\"none\"><path d=\"M2394 3279 l-29 -30 -3 -207 c-2 -182 0 -211 15 -242 39 -76 157 -76 196 0 15 31 17 60 15 243 l-3 209 -33 29 c-26 23 -41 29 -80 29 -41 0 -53 -5 -78 -31z\"\/><path d=\"M3085 3251 c-45 -19 -58 -50 -96 -229 -47 -217 -49 -260 -13 -295 52 -53 146 -42 177 20 16 31 87 366 87 410 0 70 -86 122 -155 94z\"\/><path d=\"M1751 3234 c-13 -9 -29 -31 -37 -50 -12 -29 -10 -49 21 -204 19 -94 39 -189 45 -210 14 -50 54 -80 110 -80 34 0 48 6 76 34 21 21 34 44 34 59 0 14 -18 113 -40 219 -37 178 -43 195 -70 221 -36 32 -101 37 -139 11z\"\/><path d=\"M1163 3073 c-36 -7 -73 -59 -73 -102 0 -56 133 -378 171 -413 34 -32 83 -37 129 -13 70 36 67 87 -16 290 -86 209 -89 214 -129 231 -35 14 -42 15 -82 7z\"\/><path d=\"M3689 3066 c-15 -9 -33 -30 -42 -48 -48 -103 -147 -355 -147 -375 0 -98 131 -148 192 -74 13 15 57 108 97 206 80 196 84 226 37 273 -30 30 -99 39 -137 18z\"\/><path d=\"M583 2784 c-38 -19 -67 -74 -58 -113 9 -42 211 -354 242 -373 16 -10 45 -18 66 -18 51 0 107 52 107 100 0 39 -1 41 -124 234 -80 126 -108 162 -133 173 -41 17 -61 16 -100 -3z\"\/><path d=\"M4250 2784 c-14 -9 -74 -91 -133 -183 -95 -150 -107 -173 -107 -213 0 -55 33 -94 87 -104 67 -13 90 8 211 198 130 202 137 225 78 284 -27 27 -42 34 -72 34 -22 0 -50 -8 -64 -16z\"\/><path d=\"M2275 2693 c-553 -48 -1095 -270 -1585 -649 -135 -104 -459 -423 -483 -476 -23 -49 -22 -139 2 -186 73 -142 361 -457 571 -626 285 -228 642 -407 990 -497 242 -63 336 -73 660 -74 310 0 370 5 595 52 535 111 1045 392 1455 803 122 121 250 273 275 326 19 41 19 137 0 174 -41 79 -309 363 -465 492 -447 370 -946 591 -1479 653 -113 14 -422 18 -536 8z m395 -428 c171 -34 330 -124 456 -258 112 -119 167 -219 211 -378 27 -96 24 -300 -5 -401 -72 -255 -236 -447 -474 -557 -132 -62 -201 -76 -368 -76 -167 0 -236 14 -368 76 -213 98 -373 271 -451 485 -162 444 86 934 547 1084 153 49 292 57 452 25z m909 -232 c222 -123 408 -262 593 -441 76 -74 138 -139 138 -144 0 -16 -233 -242 -330 -319 -155 -123 -309 -223 -461 -299 l-81 -41 32 46 c18 26 49 83 70 128 143 306 141 649 -6 957 -25 52 -61 116 -79 142 l-34 47 45 -20 c26 -10 76 -36 113 -56z m-2057 25 c-40 -58 -105 -190 -130 -263 -110 -324 -59 -707 132 -981 25 -35 42 -64 37 -64 -19 0 -241 119 -326 174 -188 122 -406 314 -532 468 l-58 71 108 103 c185 178 428 349 672 473 66 33 121 60 123 61 2 0 -10 -19 -26 -42z\"\/><path d=\"M2375 1950 c-198 -44 -350 -190 -395 -379 -18 -76 -8 -221 19 -290 114 -284 457 -406 731 -260 98 52 188 154 231 260 27 69 37 214 19 290 -38 163 -166 304 -326 360 -67 23 -215 33 -279 19z\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/ibrahimsheme.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p><div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;creme de la creme&nbsp;of the Northern society is expected to grace the launch of a book written in honour of well known BBC Hausa reporter in Nigeria, the late Alhaji Adamu Yusuf, in Kaduna on Sunday, October 3, 2010. 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