Since its inception in 1990, Kannywood, the Northern Nigerian film industry, produced films only in Hausa, the dominant language of the region. The film, There is a Way (2016, dir. Falalu A. Dorayi) has recently debuted a new “genre” in the English language in the industry. However, the place of English or any non-African language in African arts (film, inclusive) is a topic of scholarly debate, especially within the discourse of postcolonial studies. Many pan-African writers and critics query the justification of that as the language is, they argue, foreign to African audience and is used only by and for the elites. Kannywood filmmakers, nevertheless, claim that theirs is rather a response to the Southern Nigerian filmmakers whose industry, Nollywood is enormously successful and far ahead for, among other reasons, their use of English. This paper attempts an evaluation of the English language and the subtitle of the film in question, to access the success or otherwise of its narrative essence.

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超越界限：豪萨电影业有一种方法和英语媒介的使用

自 1990 年成立以来，尼日利亚北部的电影业 Kannywood 只用该地区的主要语言豪萨语制作电影。电影《有一条路》（2016 年，导演 Falalu A. Dorayi）最近在业界推出了一种新的英语“流派”。然而，英语或任何非非洲语言在非洲艺术（电影，包容性）中的地位是学术争论的话题，尤其是在后殖民研究的话语中。许多泛非作家和评论家质疑这种说法的合理性，因为他们认为这种语言对非洲观众来说是陌生的，并且只为精英所用。然而，Kannywood 的电影制片人声称他们的电影是对尼日利亚南部电影制片人的回应，他们的行业，Nollywood 非常成功并且遥遥领先，除其他原因外，他们使用英语。