The Hausa International Book and Arts Festival 2024 with the theme “Hausa Popular Culture” will be held in Abuja, Nigeria from December 19 – 21, 2024.
The Hausa International Book and Arts Festival was founded and curated by Sada Malumfashi to showcase the best contemporary African literature, poetry, music, art, film, and theatre in Hausa. It was held in Kaduna, Nigeria, in 2021 and has been hosted annually since, with editions in 2022 and 2023.
The 2024 edition is set to return to a new home in Abuja with activities around the theme “Hausa Popular Culture.” Here is the press release from the organisers in full;
#HIBAF24 edition will open up how Hausa as a lingua franca in northern Nigeria brings people together from many different languages and backgrounds. Hausa society as such is surrounded by popular culture. From movies to literature, to games and plays, food or our clothes and fashion. It is how society expresses itself. Popular culture as such mirrors the people, their social needs and interests. But Hausa popular culture is not only limited to local contexts, it is also prone to influences from foreign elements through transmission, redevelopment, translations, recomposition and media incursions.
The pot of Hausa popular culture is an admixture of tradition and modern influences from within Hausa society and all over the global world. Right now, Hausa popular culture continues to be a transitional and continuous living entity. It is much more than the indigenous Hausa people, and more than a tradition of the ethnic Hausa people and their language, it is an assimilation of regional and global trends.
So how do the Hausa, and Hausa speaking people interact with popular culture? What effects does popular culture have on everyday life? How does the Hausa community use popular culture to relate to the outside world?
These and many of such questions and queries would be reacted to in the fourth edition of the Hausa International Book and Arts Festival (HIBAF24) by examining popular cultures of the Hausa people, their language, music, literatures, fashion, and food.
The festival will be held as a hybrid of virtual and physical engagements from 19th-21st December, 2024 in the heart of the Capital of Nigeria, Abuja.
You can register to attend the festival by clicking here.
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