Street Photography III

Hausa Traditional Praise singer

How do i look? Awesome luxury seat!

Yam Harvest in Minna, Northern Nigeria.

Yam Storage in Minna

Some of the traditional storage facilities.

The Young shall grow.

Deformities: Not a Green Card To Begging

Deformities: Not a Green Card to Begging.
Production Coy: Movie World Entertainment 
Director: Aminu A. Shariff
Duration: 20 minutes
Format: HD

Lawan was a year old infant when he felt ill. He couldn't stark a word to express the pain he's suffering,  rather he resort to cry with tears as only available means of sending signal that 'Mom... am not felling ok'. 
His mother became traumatise  by seeing his languishing condition, she rushed him to the nearest hospital for medical assistance so as to mitigate the pain. At Asibitin Zana (as popular known) an Infectious disease hospital, little Lawan illness was diagnosed as Fever. The Doctors gave him an injection... Injection that leads to another disease- acute viral (Polio). A disease characterized by inflammation of the motor neurons of the brain and the spinal cord, and resulting in a motor paralysis followed by muscular atrophy and often permanent deformities. 
Pernicious to Lawan, that's where he met his fate. He now neither sit nor crawl, becoming a snail in human shape. More than two decade, adult Lawan is still suffering from his deformities as a result of an injection that meant to pacify fever.
Even though, he accepted his plight as an act of destiny, he never give up or succumbed to the challenges of life. 'I don't want to be part of those beggars on the street, because I hate begging'-Lawan. He believes life can be shape no matter how strangle it appeared.He vows to fight to the end with help of His creator, through whoever wish to give him back a smiling face along his path to victory.

Street Photography II

What one would do? #People #Life

Open market? #People #Trade #Kasuwar Rimi #Kano

Locally made brooms on display #People #Market #Kano

Is this a resting point? #Life #Children #Shelter #Kano

Help and send them back to class. Feed
A child today. #People #Hunger #Poverty

Riding on with life. #People #Society #Kano

Life Of a Young Refuse Collector

Mudallabi Rabi'u 14, is refuse collector. Passionate with his work he makes a living out of it. His little daily earnings shapes not only his life, but also that of his pensioner father. Mudallabi dreamt of becoming a doctor, despite coming from a poor backgroud. He aimed to change the shape of the story by becoming a medical doctor in future, a proffession he promise to help the less privelege if achieved. " A bright future awaits me" says smiling young Mudallabi. The movie 'BABU MARAYA SAI RAGO' gives an insight to his courage, intelligence, education and his respect towards his parent.

Duration: 12 minutes
Format: HD
Director: Aminu Shariff
Prod.Co: Movie World Enter.

Street PHOTOgraphy

           "My life, my people and my country. Where are we heading to? Why life is so miserable to the common like me? why my people are so evil and heartless? why my country is becoming so vulnerable to its citizens?....WHY"

"The little guy behind me was so lucky to lead his life as a hawker. As for me, I ended up a begger. This is as a result of a 'failed' system that we were engulfed in. An old person like me, supposed to be at home resting, but look at me here begging what to take into my mouth. It is pity...... though I thank God I'am a healthly old begger."

                              
"Despite the intentional malice to hurt us and our lovely, caring, courageous poor parents, We must play. In fact, am worried and confused. At my age, it should'nt be like that.... thinking about our own future at this tender age of mine." 

       
"My only wish is to meet any of them. My question to them is why do they leave me like this. I'am human being, equally important,am not mad. Look at me... ready to give 'em the hardest punch as I set my eyes on ANY good- for- nothing."

Fuel Subsidy Protest: Pictures from my Focal Lens

Here are some pictures taken during the recent anti fuel subsidy removal protest held in Kano. Share with me..

 

                                                                 "Gudluck we no gree"

"IT ALL SAYS NO TO FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL"

Gyada: Abar Alfaharin mu.

Ban yi Hangen cewar abubuwa za su tabarbare kamar haka ba, lalacewar da idan kai ba dan wani bane karatu zai zo ya gagari dalibi a kasarsa ta haihuwa. Halin ko in kula da son kai da wadanda ke rike da matakan iko ke yi wa ilimi, ya kai wani munzali da babu alamar tausayin talaka.

Sama’ila da Abubakar ‘yan uwan juna ne, iyalai sama da mutum goma sha takwas (18) mahaifinsu ya rasu ya bari shekara biyu da suka wuce. A yanzu, suna karkashin kulawar mahaifiyarsu tare da taimakon kakanninsu.

“Ni shekarata goma sha bakwai (17), shi kuma yana bi na da sha shida (16)”- a cewar Sama’ila babban cikinsu.

Wadannan yara, a duk sati suna baro kauyensu wanda yake da tazarar 40km tsakaninsa da Kano, sau biyu domin shigowa yin talla. Me suke sayarwa? Gyada!

“Daga Garko muke zuwa, mu kan taho daga karfe takwas na safe mu koma gida karfe bakwai na yamma”. Wannan hanya ta su kuwa, ta yi kaurin suna wajen manyan hadduran mota sakamakon kasancewarta babbar hanya ta shigowa Kano daga wasu birane. Matsalolin wannan hanya ta Maiduguri da sauran gurare sun hada da: hannun dayan titin, gangancin masu manyan motoci, rashin iya tukin masu ababen hawa da ke bin hanyar da kuma karya dokar hanya wanda ba wani sabon abu bane ga mai bin manyan hanyoyi a kasarnan. A wannan yanayi, wadannan yara wadanda ya kamata a ce suna marantunsu domin daukar darasi, ke tangaliliya da rayuwarsu.

“Mu kan biya naira dari da ashirin (N120) kowanne mu a matsayin kudin mota duk lokacin da za mu taho. Mu kan dauko tallar gyadar dubu biyu(N2000) kowannemu, idan da kasuwa mu kan sayar da har ta dubu da dari biyar(N1500). Kowanne kulli naira hamsin (N50) mu ke sayarwa”. Shin a wanne yanayi suke gudanar da tallar? Waje daya suke zama ko kuwa yawo suke?

“Daga nan inda mota ta sauke mu, daga nan za mu fara tallarmu. Wasu lokatanma, tun daga cikin mota za mu fara cin kasuwarmu. Babu wani takamaiman waje da za mu ce muna zama, duk inda ta kama tafiya muke- kama daga bakin hanya, bakin shaguna, kasuwa, unguwanni kai ko’ina”.

Dubban yara kamar wadannan na nan na yawo kwararo-kwararo a cikin birnin Kano da kwaryarta, za mu iya cewa Sama’ila da Abubakar sun yi dace da samun sana’ar yi, wasu sa’anninsu da yawa ba sana’ar sai shaye-shaye da zaman banza. Haka dai lamarin ke ci gaba da kasancewa a kullum, wanda kuma ba wani muhimmin kokarin gyara kan wannan annoba. Rayuwar  manyan gobe na cikin garari.....

“muna zuwa makarantar Islamiyya, amma akan hada mana da karatun boko. Dalibai a ajinmu guda dari da sittin  (160) ne.  Ina aji uku (3) shi kuma yana aji biyu (2)”.

Akwai son karatu sosai a wajen wadannan yara, amma yanayi da suka samu kansu ciki shi ya hana cikar burinsu. Wannan kuwa ba zai wuce nasaba da halin rashin babu ko talauci ba. Karajin da mahukunta ke yi na kokarin tabbatar da ilimi kyauta a saukake ga yara ya zamanto tatsuniya.

Duk dubban ko miliyoyin da gwamnati ta kance ta ‘ware kan ilimi’, hakar ba ta cimma ruwa ba. Makarantu na nan babu malaman kirki, ajujuwan babu rufi, ba kujerun zama balle wani cikakken tsari na tafiyar da bada ilimin kansa. A wasu guraben ma babu makarantun kwata-kwata, balle yaran su sami damar koyon.

A yanayi irin wannan, a iya cewa rayuwar da akwai ban tsoro a ciki. Ingattaciyar rayuwa ba ta samuwa cikin jahilci. Ya zama tilas a kawar da tallace-tallace a tsakanin yaranmu, a mayar da su makarantu, a ba su kyakkawan tarbiyya a kuma dora su kan tafarki wanda za su dogara da kansu idan sun girma. Wannan hakki ne da ya rataya akan kowa ba gwamnati kadai ba.

“Mu kanmu ba ma tunanin rayuwarmu za ta dore a talla, amma ba yadda za mu yi. Dole mu ci abinci, mu rayu mu kuma taimakawa mahaifiyarmu”. In ji Sama’ila.

Fata na kenan, haka zalika fatan duk wani mai tausayi da son ci gaba kenan. Zai fi kyau a ce yau tallar takardar shaidar ilimi ake yawo da ita kurfa-kurfa ba gyada ba. Burinsu a yanzu, su sami ilimi ko da na sanin dabarun yadda za a fitar da mai daga gyadar domin yin girki.