The main purpose of this Playlist is to preserve the works of Hajiya Sa'adat Barmani Choge, the last of Hausa female traditional performing artists from northern Nigeria. She passed away in 2013. Contrary to numerous newspaper reports of her deat at 80 years, whe died at 65. Her grandchildren have continued with her musical tradition as performing artists (she mentioned some of them in "Gwarne Ikon Allah". In my interveiw with her in 2008 she insisted she does not want any of her progeny going into music industry - but yet it is in their genes. I hope one day to record them and include them in this playlist.
This list merges BarmaniChoge Channel which I have deleted in March 2020 due to low patronage. I have, rather painstakingly, re-upped all the BarmaniChoge Channel videos on this Channel - Visually Ethnographic Networks. I feel this is a better platform for people to see Hausa performing arts at its best. This therefore puts Barmani Choges musical works alongside other performers -- some famous and others not so famous; but all capturing the disappearing traditional arts of the HAusa.
I have writen a tribute to Hajiya Sa'adu Barmani Choge. Titled, "Tribute to Hajiya Sa’adatu Ahmad Barmani Choge, Griotte, northern Nigeria, 1948-2013", it was published in The Annual Review of Islam in Africa • I ssue No. 12/13, pp. 166-172• 2015-2016. (South Africa). The pictue accompanying the article, which was used widely, was personally photographed by me at her home in Funtuwa.
Barmani Choge's music epistomizes the ancestral memory of Amada music and its signiicance as a form of entertainment for Hausa women in purdah in northern Nigeria. There are many Barmani Choge reccordings on KZitem, most of them pinched from the defunct BarmaniChoge Channel, but that's okay - the idea is to share her music, her genius and her performance.
Enjoy
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