List of the Most Powerful Actors in Hausa Kannywood Film Industry
Kannywood Film industry is a Hausa language cinema with its headquarters in Kano Northwestern Nigeria also known as Hausa film industry, the Hausa Films industry has produced countless movies home and abroad with some of the best grossing movies in Nigeria, best selling actors, and many young African talented actors and film producers with millions of followers home and abroad, Hausaposts.com has released the list of 7 top most powerful and influential actors in the Kannywood Hausa film Industry of Northern Nigeria with the main base in Kano.
7. Nafisat Abdullahi
6. Yakubu Muhammed
Born on 25th March 1973, Yakubu Muhammad is one of the well educated and influential actors in kannywood especially due to his appearance in many southern Nigeria English Movies, this has proved his capability, prowess, and eloquence both in acting and directing, the actor started his carer in kannywood as a scriptwriter and always working behind the scene, later he started singing with many lucks to his possession. he now ventured into a full acting career especially in Nollywood Nigeria.
5. Sadiq Sani Sadiq
Born on 20th April 1973, Sani Musa Abdullahi is a Kano born natural actor with dancing skills and also singing, he acts both in Kannywood and Nollywood as one of the few actors who break the barrier between north and south in Nigeria film industry after Ali Nuhu as being the first to have successfully achieved that, Sani Danja is married to a veteran Hausa film actress Mansoorah Isah with four kids, three sons, and one daughter.
Adam A. Zango is Hausa's most versatile and most skilled actor, he is a scriptwriter, singer, dancer, film editor, producer, and actor, he impressed most of his followers with his love acting skills and variety of dancing techniques. Adam A. Zango is no doubt a force to reckon with though he is somehow controversial in nature, the actor was born in Zangon Katap of Kaduna state on 1st August 1985 before later moved to Jos for his primary and secondary school and the milestone of his acting career where he picked interest since in secondary while he was in the city of Jos North central Nigeria. later he moved to kano for his full movie-making career in the Hausa film industry, zango is also referred to as the Prince of Kannywood after Ali Nuhu as the King.
Rahama Sadau is no doubt the second most powerful actor in Kannywood and the only most strong woman on our list, she has survived many controversies in Kannywood, she is determined and tenacious in nature, furious to rivalries yet firm and caring to her fellows, she was born on 7th December 1993 in Kaduna state Northwestern Nigeria, she is a natural dancer and professional actress both in Nigerian English movies of Nollywood and Hausa film industry Kannywood, she rose to fame on 2013 with the support of the King of Kannywood Ali Nuhu as her mentor and guardian in the industry, Sadau has won many awards both in Nigeria and abroad.
Ali Nuhu Mohammed is no doubt and unarguably the most powerful Man in kannywood both as an actor and director, he made his acting debut in the 1999 movie "Abin Sirri ne" and several other Hausa films at the time. Ali Nuhu was born in Maiduguri Northeastern Nigeria on 15th March 1974 and schooled in Kano before moving to Jos for his degree in Geography from University of Jos, he started his career in Jos, Ali Nuhu is regarded as the most successful actor from northern Nigeria with many awards both in Nigeria and abroad, Nuhu is the first actor from Nothern Nigeria to have act both in the south and the northern part of Nigeria, Ali Nuhu is a trailblazer, record breaker and a force in Nigeria movies cinema as a whole, he has appeared in more than 900 movies both in Nollywood English Movies and Kannywood Hausa movies.
