Abdalla Uba Adamu

Abdalla Uba Adamu (born 25 April 1956) is a Nigerian academic, educator, publisher and media scholar[1]. He taught media and science education courses in many Nigerian universities and around the world, including serving as a European Union Visiting Professor at University of Warsaw, Poland, in 2012,[2] visiting professor, Rutgers University, New Jersey, and visiting professor, University of Florida in 2010. Adamu holds double professorships in Science Education and Media and Cultural Communication, both from Bayero University, Kano, in 1997 and 2012 respectively.[2][3] Adamu was Fulbright African Senior Research Scholar in 1991, he is also the developer of ‘hooked’ Hausa language character font sets (ɓ Ɓ ɗ Ɗ ƙ Ƙ), which were not present at the advent of the Internet.[4] He is the current Vice-Chancellor of National Open University of Nigeria since 2016.[5][6]

Abdalla Uba Adamu
Vice-Chancellor of National Open University of Nigeria
Assumed office
February 2016
Personal details
Born (1956-04-25) April 25, 1956
Kano, Nigeria
Alma materUniversity of Sussex
University of London
Ahmadu Bello University
ProfessionProfessor
WebsiteOfficial website

Early life and education

Adamu was born in Daneji, Kano city, Kano State, on 25 April 1956. He received his undergraduate B.Sc (Education) degree in Education, Biology and Physiology in 1979 at Ahmadu Bello University[7]. He did his National Service at a high school in Umoarkrika, Imo State, before he proceeded to Chelsea College, University of London where he earned Master of Arts in science education in 1983[8][9] He earned his doctorate at the University of Sussex in 1988 under the sponsorship of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission.[10]

Career

Adamu began his academic career in 1980 when he was employed as Graduate Assistant in Bayero University[11]. He rose through ranks to become professor of Science Education and Curriculum Studies in 1997. In 2004 he presented in his Professorial Inaugural Lecture, Sunset at Dawn, Darkness at Noon: Reconstructing the Mechanisms of Literacy in Indigenous Communities in which he explored the use of Arabic alphabet as Hausa language literary devices in Ajami writings. He proposed what he called ‘Ajamization of Knowledge’ as an alternative educational strategy for millions of Qur'anic school pupils to acquire contemporary education in a literary script they know, rather than Latin alphabet.[12][13]

Adamu was Fulbright African Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley from 1991 to 1992. While there, he wrote a monograph, Reform and Adaptation in Nigerian University Curricula, published by The Edwin Mellen Press, New York, in 1994, which explores the transfer of educational influence and structures from the United States to Nigeria, and the substitution of British educational system in Nigeria in the process.

Adamu has given commissioned lectures at Rutgers State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick (2015), University of Warsaw, Poland (2012), Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland (2012), University of Florida (2010), University of Basel, Switzerland (2009), Barnard College, Columbia University, New York (2007), School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London (2006), and Institute für Afrinkanishe, University of Cologne, Germany (2004).

Selected works
  • Transglobal Media Flows and African Popular Culture: Revolution and Reaction in Muslim Hausa Popular Culture: Visually Ethnographic Productions, 2007. ISBN 978-9788109488
  • Reform and Adaptation in Nigerian University Curricula, 1960-1992: Living on the Credit Line: New York, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0773494220
  • Passage to India: Media Parenting and Changing Popular Culture in Northern Nigeria: Kaduna, Informart Publishers, 2004.
  • Chieftaincy and Security in Nigeria: Past, Present, and Future (ed): Lagos, Tellettes Consulting Company, 2007. ISBN 978-810940-3

See also

References
  1. Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
  2. "Abdalla Uba Adamu" (PDF). Modern University of Warsaw (in Polish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  3. "Abdalla U Adamu". bukonline.academia.edu. Bayero University, Kano. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  4. "Rabi'at font". carmenmccain.com. Carmen McCain. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  5. "Administrative Framework". nouedu.net. National Open University of Nigeria. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  6. "FG Appoints 13 University Vice Chancellors". Channels Television.
  7. "Tribute to My Teacher: Dual professorship, borderless scholarship (I), By Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u - Premium Times Nigeria". 2013-02-12. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
  8. "Professor of science education". uchebana5.ru. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  9. "CV -Abdalla Uba Adamu". Kano Online. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  10. "Abdalla Uba -Biography". auadamu.com. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  11. Affairs, Arewa (2020-04-28). "Prof Abdallah @64: Garlands to a Versatile and humble Scholar - By Ahmad Danyaro". Arewa Affairs. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
  12. "NOUN Student Enrolment Hits 254,000". economicconfidential.com. Economic Confidential. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
  13. Fim Magazine (November 2014). "Yadda na zama Farfesa har sau biyu -Abdalla" (Magazine) (in Hausa) (179). Informart Publishers, Kaduna. p. 39 – 45.
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