July 2021, Presentation at the Coronation of His Royal Highness, the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero as the 15th Fulani Emir of Kano, Nigeria
Vice-Chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN)
In office 2016–2021
Preceded by
Prof. Vincent Ado Tenebe
Succeeded by
Prof. Olufemi Peters
Personal details
Born
(1956-04-25) April 25, 1956 (age 68) Kano, Nigeria
Residence(s)
Kano, northern Nigeria
Alma mater
University of Sussex University of London Ahmadu Bello University
Profession
Academic
Website
Official website
Abdalla Uba Adamu (pronunciationⓘ) (born 25 April 1956) is a Nigerian academic, educator, publisher, filmmaker, ethnomusicologist, and media scholar.[1] He hold double professorships in Science Education (1997) and Media and Cultural Communication (2012).[2][3]
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,[4] visiting professor, Rutgers University, New Jersey, and visiting professor, University of Florida in 2010. He was Fulbright African Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, 1991-1992.
In his contribution to the development of Hausa language in modern era, he developed 'hooked' Hausa language character font sets (ɓ Ɓ ɗ Ɗ ƙ Ƙ), which were not present at the advent of the word processors in Nigeria in the 1990s.[5][6] He named them 'rabi'at' (after his mother, Rabi'at Muhammad) and 'abdalla' (after himseof, as he could not think of any name at the time).[7]
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^"Bayero University Official Bulletin" (PDF). July 11, 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 12, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
^Sogolo, Godwin (February 26, 2021). "Roundtable on Global Media Discourse: Contextulising Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu by Godwin Sogolo".
^"Abdalla Uba Adamu" (PDF). Modern University of Warsaw (in Polish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
^"Rabi'at font". carmenmccain.com. Carmen McCain. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
^Sani, Abu-Ubaida. "How To Use "The Universal Hausa Hooked-Letters"".
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