A BIOGRAPHY OF GAMBU AND HIS CATEGORIZATION OF CRIMES (original) (raw)

The Chapter focuses on the life history of Alhaji Muhammadu Gambu Fagada Babba who is known because of his songs for thieves.The concern herein is on aspects of his songs that are crime-generating (criminogenic), deviance-motivating, vulgar, blasphemous and often times criminal. Clearly, like Gambu's songs, some of the songs or aspects of them there-off by Audu Makarfi, Sabo Wakilin Tauri, Ashana, Garba Super, Falasfa, Garba Na-habu, Mamman Shata, Dan-Anache, Sale Gambara, Kakkabi, Shehu Ajilo, etc are crime-generating (criminogenic),deviance-motivating, vulgar and blasphemous. Finally, the Chapter comes up with a categorization of crimes gleaned from Gambu's songs and compares it with the categorization that obtains in the criminology enterprise; and clearly, there is a synergy between the two categorizations.