297Italic page numbers indicate material in the figures.
A Daidaita Sahu (Let’s Realign Our Steps),
139, 141
Abacha, Mariam, 201–202, 210
Abacha, Sani, 193, 201
Abdu ‘dan Umma, 45
Abdullahi, Abubakar I., 94
Abubakar, Aminudeen, 132
Abubakar, Maryam, 138
Accra, Ghana, 59
acculturation, 5
Achebe, Chinua, 51
Adamu, Abdalla U ba, 126, 136, 140, 146
Adejobi, Oyin, 78
adorcism, 54
Adventism, Seventh-day, 1, 4, 104, 106,
109–110, 116
A fghanistan war, 172, 176–177, 182, 189
A frica Magic Plus (satellite tv channel),
270
African Film (magazine of photo novels),
21–22, 56, 154, 272n4 (chap. 2); com-
mercial orientation of, 57; Facebook
page, 81–82; fan culture and, 71, 73–75,
77; gender characterizations in, 70–71;
hard-boiled school of crime fiction and,
66; Lance Spearman in, 58, 63, 65, 272n6;
legacy of, 78–81; modern urban aesthetic
of, 68–69; political references in, 67–68;
Todorov’s typolog y of detective fiction
and, 64
African Hustle (Mzungu Kichaa single), 241
Afrocentric perspectives, 92
Afro-futurism, 82
Afromodernity, 264–265
agency, 5, 18–19, 269; Muslim, 25, 173;
scamming and, 204, 208, 220, 223–224;
spirit mediumship and, 38
A hmad, Muhammad, 195
A hmed, Mukhtar, 144
Ajudua, Fred, 206
A kewijesu Drama Ministry, 80
A kintola, Bimbo, 167, 168
A la, A minu, 145
A liyu, Abdullahi, 187
alterity, 17, 170, 261, 265–267; confrontation
with alien others, 39; copying triggered
by contact with, 13; passiones and, 52–53;
representations of, 9; as requirement of
mimesis, 8
A merican films. See Holly wood (A meri-
can) films
Amina (women’s magazine), 59
A minu, Abubakar, 195
A ngoche, K ilion Otuk, 104