Piracy Preserves Data and Media that Otherwise Wouldn't b...

In Nigeria as elsewhere, piracy creates new kinds of archives inconceivable outside of this mode of media reproduction. In markets specializing in wholesale tape duplication, sellers have sprung up specializing in the storage and preservation of different music forms. These sellers maintain substantial archives of Indian film songs, traditional Hausa singers such as Mamman Shata and Musa ‘Dan Kwairo, and new music forms such as bandiri, a religious music that takes tunes from Hindi films an...