The Sokoto Book and Arts Festival (#SOBAFest23) is back for a third edition this year. The annual festival, organised by the Sokoto Book and Arts Foundation, celebrates and supports the creative industries in Sokoto State. It offers a variety of online and offline events, including book chats, panel discussions, art exhibitions, film screenings, plays, poetry performances, music, dance and more.
According to a statement, in the last two editions, over 500 art enthusiasts from Sokoto and beyond participated.
This year’s festival, curated by Yusuf Shehu Ambursa, a poet and spoken word artist and Isah Aliyu Chiroma, a poet and essayist, according to the statement, “will be even bigger and better, with a focus on the artistic and cultural history of the Caliphate and the need for a return”.