310 i n de x
Titanic, R .M.S., 1, 84, 86, 116; A frican pop-
ular culture references to, 118, 118–119; in
metaphor and allegory, 117
Titanic music video clip (Wenge bcbg),
111–115, 114, 273n12, 274n13
To d o r o v, Tz v e t a n , 6 4
Tolly wood (Tanzanian film industry), 163
tragedy, 10, 263, 265, 266
Tr u e L o v e (Nigerian film), 153
Tr u e L o v e (photo-novel magazine), 79,
272n4 (chap. 2)
tsotsi taal ( Johannesburg gangster lan-
guage), 66
Tuareg people, 30, 34
Tudu A nza, Niger, 32
Tu k o Pa m o j a (We are together; Mzungu
K ichaa album), 232, 243, 248
tvt (Tanzanian state television), 152–153
“Twende Kazi” (Come and work; Mzungu
K ichaa song), 232
Twentieth Century Fox, 118
Twitter, 250–254
Uganda, 21, 56, 73, 158
“Ujumbe” (The message; Mzungu K ichaa
song), 241–242
Ukpabi, Sam, 47
Umar, Kabeer, 190
Umar, Rukaiy ya, 138
Umaru (Babule spirit), 48
Umez, Tony, 153
United Nations (un), 190, 275n7
United States, 182, 206, 251, 252; resentment
of, 178; terrorist attacks on, 174, 176
Upper Volta, 34
ur-scene, 20
Usman, Maryam (Maryam Hiyana),
140–141, 148
vcds (video compact discs), 111, 151, 167,
171, 273n10
veejays (video jockeys), 158
Vertovec, Steven, 230
vhs cassettes, 151, 158, 171, 187, 188
video films, 7, 75, 79, 151; bin Laden and
Saddam Hussein in, 186–192, 188, 191;
Christian (southern Nigeria), 133, 147,
270; Ghanaian, 8, 262; song-and-dance
mise-en-scène, 87; video films as photo
novels in Tanzania, 154–158, 156
video films, Hausa, 121, 178, 262; camama
videos, 187; emergence of, 55; filmmak-
ing as Islamic preaching, 131–136; Hausa
diaspora and, 270; as localization of
Bollywood, 125–131, 127, 147; relaxation
of censorship, 136–140; song-and-dance
formula in, 120, 121, 123, 131, 137–138, 148,
267; stars of, 179. See also Kanywood
videocassettes, 23, 134, 187, 263
videotapes, 2, 120wa’azi (preaching), 132, 133, 136
Wajanja (Mzungu K ichaa music video), 245
Wallace, Anthony, 36
“war on terror,” 24, 172–174, 269
Warsame, Kaynaan Cabdi, 246
“wash-wash” scam, 214–219, 216
Wav in’ F l ag (Warsame music video), 246
Wayne, John, 75
Weiss, Brad, 15–16
Wendl, Tobias, 6, 181
Wenge bcbg, 111–115, 114, 274n14
Wenge Musica Maison Mère, 113, 114–115,
274n14
Werrason, Noël Ngiama, 113, 114
West A frican Book Publishers (Lagos), 78,
272n9
West Side Story (A merican musical), 143
Westerns (film genre), 75
W hite, A lma, 116
W hite, Bob, 113
W hite, Ellen G., 110
White Nigerian (Mohammed Jammal),
230, 233, 235, 248; as comedian, 26, 238;
cosmopolitanism and, 256; fans and
critics of, 233–234, 243–245; habitus and
clothing style of, 238–239; sameness and
difference performed by, 235–236; social
media and, 251–253
whodunits, 64
Winslet, Kate, 97, 99
witchcraft, 21, 36, 169; Babule mediums as
witch hunters, 49; in Bongo movies, 164;
witch doctor as mad scientist, 80