Garba Gashuwa

Gashuwa’s civil service career began when he eventually relocated and settled in Kano at the request of the late Malam Aminu Kano. His first appointment by the Kano State Government was at CTV-67's Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Cultural Section, during the administration of Alhaji Aliyu Sabo Bakin Zuwo,. He worked there until 1989, when the State's military administrator Colonel Idris Garba, requested his transfer to the Kano State History and Culture Bureau Archived 2016-08-21 at the Wayback Machine, where he served as an adviser. He worked at the Bureau until he rose to the position of a member of its Board of Directors, a position he held from 1989 to 1995. He retired from service in 1995 and devoted his life to composing Hausa poems in Ajami script.

Garba Gashuwa has published Fasahar Garba Gashuwa, "The Poems of Garba Gashuwa" (a transliteration from Ajami to Boko script), an Anthology, which includes a collection of 30 out of his many poems, edited by Professor Abdulƙadir Ɗangambo of Bayero University, Kano (2008), and published in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria.

There is a bachelors dissertation (in Hausa language) on his contributions to Hausa literature, written in 1990 by Amina Tijjani of Bayero University. There is a whole chapter in Abdullahi Birniwa’s doctoral thesis, 1987, Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto, Nigeria, which analyses Ɗan Hakin da ka Raina, cited above. Another doctoral thesis by Jibril Shu'aibu Adamu of University of Warsaw, Poland, uses his poems as part of materials being studied.

He started writing political poems during the 1978 campaign tour of National President of the People's Redemption Party, Malam Aminu Kano, held in Gashua and its environs. As a result, Aminu Kano invited Garba Gashuwa to reside in Kano, for him to continue making his contribution to political developments of the time. Whenever Gashuwa chanted his political poems, his audiences would chant the chorus, clapping their hands. Besides religion and politics, Gashuwa wrote on other subjects and, so far, has more than 1,000 Hausa Ajami poems to his name.

Alhaji Garba Shu’aibu Gashuwa (born 1957) is a contemporary Nigerian Hausa poet.

Alhaji Garba Shu’aibu Gashua, who is popularly known as "Garba Gashuwa", is a contemporary Nigerian Hausa poet, businessman, politician and a retired civil servant, born in Gasamu, in present-day Jakusko Local Government Area of Yobe State, North-Eastern Nigeria in 1957, to his father Sālisu and mother Salāmatu. Gashuwa’s father was a native of Badawa (Bade) and had four children, namely Sa’idu, Isa, Garba (the third), and Musa. Today, Garba Gashuwa resides in Kano with his family and has many children; among them is Musa Garba Gashuwa, a talented and popular composer.