HIBAF 2022 - Second Edition

The 2nd edition of the Hausa International Book and Arts Festival (HIBAF) was held under the theme 'Being and Becoming'. It explored language and identity in the African literary space and opened up discussions about language and identity through literature, history, music and arts.

Building on the knowledge that in the field of Hausa, origin and identity has been confronted with missing links or gaps with very little known about the identity of a Hausa person. Who is the Hausa Person? What language did the ancestors of the Hausa person speak two centuries ago? These and many of such questions and interceptive queries were answered in this second edition of the Hausa International Book and Arts Festival (HIBAF22) by linking and connecting arts, language and identity through analysis of the processes that give birth to experience.

Being and Becoming was a movement of return to language and identity archived as a virtual reality experience, bringing the old and the new of Hausa literature, music and arts, and prodding on long covered wounds in the hausa literary space.

The festival was held as a hybrid of virtual and physical engagements from 2nd – 4th December, 2022 in Kaduna, Nigeria.