cc. Following a spate of arrests of prominent industry figures on charges of alleged indecency and failure to register new films, Carmen McCain, Nazir Ahmed Hausawa and Ahmed Alkanawy discuss the decline of the previously thriving Hausa-language film industry in Kano, Nigeria. Highlighting the authorities’ efforts to crack down on ostensibly illicit and immoral material under the rubric of sharia law, the authors survey the arrests, detentions, fines, and shop closures endured by those involved in the industry.