Abubakar Bashir Maishadda

Abubakar Bashir Abdulkarim, also known as Abubakar Bashir Maishadda (born 2 August 1988), is a Nigerian film producer who works in the Kannywood film industry. He is the founder of Maishadda Global Resources LTD. He has produced a number of films under his banner, featuring Kannywood stars such as Ali Nuhu, Sadiq Sani Sadiq, Maryam Yahaya, Yakubu Muhammed, and Rahama Sadau, in films like Takanas Ta Kano, Daga Murna (2015), Wutar Kara (2019), Hafeez (2019), Mujadala (2019), Mariya (2019), Ana Dara Ga Dare (2018) and Hauwa Kulu (2019). Maishadda is frequently considered "king of the box office". He received City People Entertainment Awards in 2018 and 2019, and 2015 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards in the best indigenous language category (Hausa).

Early life and background Abubakar Bashir Maishadda was born on 2 August 1988 in Dandishe, Dala local government of Kano State. He grew up in Gadon Kaya, Gwale local government of Kano State. He is the son of Alhaji Bashir Abdulkarim Maishadda and Safiya Sani Na'ibi.

Maishadda attended Shukura International Nursery and Primary School Kurna for his nursery school and later moved to Gadon Kaya where he continued his primary school at ACE Academy. He completed his primary and secondary school education from Sheik Bashir El-rayyah School Complex. He obtained a National Diploma in Computer Science and another in Filmmaking from Northwest University.

Career Maishadda joined the Kannywood film industry in 2012 with the help of Abubakar A.S Mai Kwai. He later met Ibrahim Bala, who is also a film director in the Kannywood film industry. They worked together and produced a film titled Ba Girma (2014), which was his first film.

Maishadda has produced more than 50 films both in Hausa and English. He has collaborated with Kabiru Jammaje to produce English films such as Light and Darkness (2016), In Search of the King (2018), and This is the Way (2018).

2019 marked a turning point for Maishadda after releasing Hauwa Kulu (War against rape) (2019), in which he addressed the issue of rape. Hauwa Kulu won best movie of the year at the 2019 City People Entertainment Awards.

In 2020, Maishadda collaborated with Ali Nuhu and Kabiru Jammaje to produce the highest budgeted film The Right Choice (2020), which featured top Nollywood stars.

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