Abubakar Imam (1911-1981)

Abubakar Imam (1911-1981)

Writer, Teacher, Educationist and translator, Imam was an influential man of letters regarded as a founding father of  "Northern Consciousness".  He wrote 17 books of fiction, history and miscellaneous works in the Hausa language.  He edited Gaskiya Tofi Kwabo,  (the first Hausa language newspaper) from 1948 to 1951 and won the Margaret Wrong Memorial Scholarship in 1962 for distinguished scholarship in authorship and journalism.  He was awarded the NNOM in 1979.