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13. Interview, Sheikh Dahiru Bauci, Kaduna, Nigeria, 14 May 1995.
14. Interviews: Halilu Getso, Director, Radio Kaduna 24 April 1995; Usman
Shettima 24 April 1995, and Ibrahim Bak’o, 26 April 1995, all in Kaduna
Nigeria. Aminu Ahmed Director Kano State Ministry of Information, 27 May
1995 and 3 July 1995, Aminu Isa, Head of Programs, City Television Kano,
20 May 1995; Hassan Suleiman, Kano State Ministry of Information 2 July
1995—all in Kano, Nigeria.
15. Interview, Aminu Ahmed, Kano, 3 July 1995.
16. Interview, Aminu Isa, Kano, 27 May 1995.
17. See Larkin 2008, Chapter 2.
18. Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN)/File D60/Islamic Religious
Affairs. Letter, Leaders of Tijaniyya and Kadiriyya Sects of the Northern
States to Managing Director, Radio Kaduna. 14 August 1977. The awkward
English of the letter, sent to executives whose English was likely to be flaw-
less, indicates the extent of the cultural gap separating the social make-up of
Sufis from the ‘yan boko who made up the professional echelons of the civil
service.
19. Interview, Halilu Getso, Director, Radio Kaduna, Kaduna,.24 April 1995.
20. FRCN/D60/Islamic Religious Affairs. Memo from Managing Director to
Head of Programmes. 31 August 1977.
21. Interview, Ibrahim Bak’o, Radio Kaduna, Kaduna,24 April 1995.
22. For an analysis of the rise of this class of bureaucrat and thinker see Yakubu
1996.
23. FRCN/D60/Islamic Religious Affairs. Letter, from Managing Director to
Commissioner of Police, Kaduna. 11 August 1978.
24. Interview, Sanusi Gumbi, op cit.
25. One can see this lineage in work as diverse as Eickelman and Anderson 1999,
Hirschkind 2006, Meyer 2004a, Meyer and Moors 2006a, Warner 1990,
2002.