HIBAF 2024 - Fourth Edition

HIBAF 2024 worked to explore the ways Hausa society is surrounded by popular culture. From movies to literature, to games and plays, food or our clothes and fashion. It took a look at how society expresses itself with Popular culture as a mirror to the people, their social needs and interests.

A major interest in this is exploring the way Hausa popular culture is not only limited to local contexts, but is also prone to influences from foreign elements through transmission, redevelopment, translations, recomposition and media incursions. The major point was dissecting the admixture of tradition and modern influences from within Hausa society and all over the global world where Hausa popular culture continues to be a transitional living entity.

The festival was held as a hybrid of virtual and physical engagements from 19th–21st December, 2024 in the heart of the Capital of Nigeria, Abuja.