This document summarizes Graham Furniss' presentation on cultural translation and debate. The presentation discussed how values and their interpretations are constantly debated through encoding in evaluative processes. It noted that debate and contestation equally surround issues like polio vaccination and women's education in northern Nigeria. The presentation also explored how motivations, hopes and fears are always contested and changing within and between groups in society, and how they take on different implications as they move from personal narratives to various media forms. It briefly discussed how Boko Haram represented an extreme end of ongoing debates about what is permitted or forbidden in Islam and Hausa culture. It also summarized the rise of popular Hausa fiction since 1987 which has been the subject of widespread public debates about