Alhaji Mahmud Muhammad, shortened as Mudi, by way of Hausa custom; popularly known as Mudi Speaking, was born on 1st  October, 1930, at Darma Quaters in Kano city, to Muhammad Buwa and Hadiza, nicknamed Miafura. His great grandfather, Abdullahi, was of Fulani origin from Auyo, Hadejia Emirate in the then Kano province.

His grandfather Sulaiman, the son of Abdullahi, migrated to kano and gave birth to Alhaji muhammadu Buwa, Sipikin's father. His mother Hadiza, the daughter of Ibrahim (Iro) and the grand-daughter of the 7th  Amir of katsina, Abubakar(1887-1905) of the Dallazawa Fulbe clan.

His paternal grandmother Maryam, known as Yaya Duwa, was the daughter of Wamban Daura while his paternal grandfather, Sulaiman, was Fulata-Barno. This means that the family was either Fulbe or was a mixture of Fulbe and kanuri from Barno.
       
Muhammad, sipikin's father, married four wives and had fourteen children. Four of them died at tender age. Because Mudi did not die, he was nicknamed ''kyauta'', a gift from God, and a sign of appreciation to Allah.

Mudi came to be known by a number of aliases, derived from childhood talent, characteristics, intellectual exceptions and uniqueness. ''Kyauta'' which means a gift; bodily or intellectually, ''Gwani'' to mean genius or whizz-kid and ''Sipikin'' to mean immaculate as young students of Mudi’s generation were then called (though Mudi had never attended formal school).

He was known to be always clean and smart. Mudi, like every child in Northern Nigeria, received his early Islamic education in Fiqhu (Islamic Jurisprudence), Tauhid (Theology), Hadith (Prophetic tradition) etc., from his father, before going to study Qur'an under Mallam Umaru Badamagare at Zangon Barebari, Kano city.

Mudi never went to a formal school to study western education, yet he was able to acquire GCE (General Certificate in Education) via correspondence with a school in London between 1953-1960. He only attended Literacy Classes organized by his contemporaries at Shahuci and other lessons taught by Mallam Aminu Kano at Sudawa Quaters.

His early teachers at Shahuci Literacy classes were Mallam Aminu Kano, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule (Dan Masanin Kano), Shu'aibu Kazaure, among others. He enrolled in Fahadiyya School in Meddina, Saudi Arabia, in 1953.
       
Mudi was a successful businessman, transacting with big European and Lebanese companies such as GBO, UAC, Chalerams, PZ and a bicycle company owned by a Lebanese. With these businesses, Mudi Sipikin was able to distribute 100 bicycles to PRP for transportation convenience.

Mudi worked as an agent for West African Pilgrimage Agency in 1955, a travelling company owned by Alhassan Dantata, transporting people to Saudi Arabia by means of land before transferring them onto ship through Sudan golf.
       
Mudi Sipikin had an extensive knowledge of political developments all over the world and travelled to many countries in all the continents of the world.

Mudi was a nationalist, for his involvement in independence struggle. As political activist, Mudi faced incarcerations from aristocratic establishment and colonial masters. He served 10 months prison terms in Kaduna for composing a poem titled Rasha Abokan Fita Kunya (1962), a poem that went against the interest of British colonial masters.

Sipikin was a founding member of Northern Element Progressive Union (NEPU), a radical political party at the heart of the cause of the masses, fighting against colonialism and traditional aristocrats. In return of the struggle, Mudi and his fellow NEPU comrades faced difficulties and hardships.

NEPU was formed in 1950 and became famous under Mallam Aminu Kano, with other members including Alhaji Magaji Danbatta, Mallam Abba Maikwaru, Bello Ijimu. Other early members were Musa Kaula, Uba Na Alkasim, Tanko Yakasai, Sani Darma and Lawan Dambazau, among others.

He held various posts at the party level, serving as Security Adviser to NEPU in 1950, before he formed his own political party known as Askianist Movement. It was said that he joined almost all the political parties in existence before independence. He defected to another

P0pp0pppppp0p0p0p0p party either because of disagreement over deviation from the party ideology or failure of the party to meet its objectives.

Mudi attended constitutional conference in London under the flag of Action Group (AG) in 1953, an incident that generated a lot of crisis between Mudi and other NEPU officials. In  response  to this, he beautifully defended himself that he served in AG as a bridge to ease the ethnic, regional and political differences among the three regions of the country so that colonial masters would not  use ethnic and regional division to deny
Nigeria her independence in a fairly short time.

Mudi was the head National Religious Tolerance Committee (1986) in the office of former Head of State General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida. He made immense contribution in uniting religious and ethnic division via conferences, events and seminars. Mudi also served Chair of Kano State Agency for Mass Education (1979-1983).
       
Mudi was the founding father of Hikima Club, an association of poets rendering in Hausa language. He had a number of poems to his credit including Wakar Tuwo, Rasha Abokan Fita Kunya, Arewa Jamhuriyya Kawai, Zuwan mu Ingila Gyaran Mulki, Shehu Mallam Nasiru Kabara, Wasiyya Sipikiyya, Madinar Annabi, Yabon Fasahar Mutanen Da da Kirkinsu, Kukan Kurciya, Husufin Rana, Gadar Zare, Karangiya, Karara, Wakar Yagana, Halayen Mutanenmu,Turaren Kamshi, etc.

His maiden poem Wakar Tuwo was published in 1946, when Mudi was 18, revealing his concern for hunger and the condition of the poor - and the way they were treated.

Sipikin had stunning capacity in Islamic knowledge, political awareness, enhancing him to develop radical propensity against the aspects of Hausa culture he considered unIslamic and retrogressive: Bori, Tsibbu and other Maguzanci practices.
       
Alhaji Mudi Sipikin, as a learned man, versed in Islamic knowledge and political awareness, axed numerous thematic concerns in his work, covering many areas in a highly sophisticated way and logical manner. He composed a poem on almost every aspect of life and on every problem confronting the society. He had the capacity to hit squarely at the issues of his concerns with fascinating application of his knowledge in poetry making.

The events that motivated Sipikin to write are complex, historical, intriguing and reeling: politics, religion, societal problems, culture, marriage, education, family matters, economics; and  intruding and insidious forces of modernity that seemed to erode the moral behaviour of Hausa community bequeathed by the forebears of the land.

Sipikin was a family man (mai zumunci), philanthropist, a prominent political activist, a crusader of social change and a great public poet. Sipikin was a very popular poet. Up till his death,  he recited his poems in the public occasions for the pleasure of his audience. Mudi died at the age of 83, on 19th February, 2013.