Indigenous Knowledge Production: Promoting Hausa cultural Production through festivals and translation

Author Sada Malumfashi will speak about his practice as a writer, translator, and curator of the Hausa International Book and Arts Festival.

Speaker

Sada Malumfashi is a writer and cultural curator from Nigeria. He is the Founder of Open Arts, a literary and arts collective where he curates the Hausa International Book and Arts Festival (HIBAF), a crisscross festival of arts and language by and for African creatives in an indigenous language. The festival showcases the best of contemporary African literature, poetry, music, art, film, and theatre in Hausa language. His fiction has appeared in Lolwe, Bakwa Magazine, Transition Magazine and New Orleans Review.

He has produced video documentaries exploring identity of cultural and artistic producers of Hausa diaspora across the world. He is interested in the nexus of culture and identity on the African continent. His works have explored Hausa women writings across northern Nigeria.

Event series

This event is brought to you by SOAS Centre of African Studies, CAS in collaboration with the SLCL Tafsiri Research Culture Group co-led by Dr Ida Hadjivayanis and Dr Carmen McCain, and the ISPF institutional support grant (ODA).  It will run both on campus and online (register to attend online webinar).

It is part of several planned events this year which aim to promote Hausa language and culture and draw attention to the online Hausa language classes being offered at SOAS in collaboration with the Centre for Research in Nigerian Languages, Translation, and Folklore, at Bayero University, Kano. Previous events include Zaynab Ango's talk "Anonymity and Agency: Transformative Sexuality Discourse in Hausa Prose Fiction."

The event is free, but registering through Eventbrite will give us an idea of how many people are coming in person, and registering with Zoom will enable you to attend the webinar.

Images: Sada Malumfashi, Hausa International Book and Arts Festival