A Katsina-born playwright and artiste, Umaru Danjuma Katsina, popularly known in Hausa drama series as Kasagi, is dead.
Danjuma, who wrote the famous Hausa language drama/play Kulba Na Barna, died Friday morning and has since been buried at Sabuwar Unguwa cemetery in Katsina metropolis.
He also wrote Ai Ga Irin ta Nan. He had a number of unwritten plays performed on stage.
He was 71, left behind two wives and many children.
Among his wives is Barrister Safiya Umar Badamasi, the first Hausa/Fulani woman to become a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). His other wife is a practising medical doctor.
Details of his illness were not immediately made available but one of his acquaintances, Najume Muhammed, who starred as Idon Mujiya in Samanja, told 21st CENTURY CHRONICLE that the late artiste battled leg ailment for years before he was diagnosed with another illness.
Kasagi was born in 1950 in Katsina town. He attended Central Elementary School from 1960-1965, and later Provincial Secondary School Katsina, from 1965 -1972.
He started working with the Ministry of Information in Kaduna in 1973.
He studied theatre and cinema arts in London in 1975.
He was appointed Deputy Director, History and Culture Bureau when Katsina was carved out of Kaduna State in 1988.
He returned to Ahmadu Bello University in 1992, and worked there until his retirement from public service.
