Lagos Book and Art Festival
lagos book art festival labaf annual art festival founded committee relevant art cora nigeriabased cultural organisation maiden edition festival held november jazz ’s permanent site lekki lagos idea behind festival commemorate nigeria return democracy three decade military regime festival would reenergise scene refocus young old especially bookreading culture gradually dying dubbed africa’s biggest culture picnic lagos book art festival held sevenday period different venue including goetheinstitute british council freedom park lagos state labaf feature number different activity including prefestival activity like book trek major festival activity including musical performance book reading film screening publishers’ forum book art exhibition panel discussion colloquium symposium book presentation cultural exhibition book review green festival event festival also enables participation student primary secondary school university nigeria introducing competition mentoring opportunity festival also selects different book yearly featured book festival form part festival discourse year st edition festival took place – november theme emerge breaking new theme dedicated loving memory great multimedia artist david herbert dale died tuesday august festival also slated celebrate different literary icon died year including pius adesanmi eddie ugbomah bisi silva others festival theme eruption global fracture common humanity renewal towards world work festival always time book review film screening documentary workshop play lot presentation thrill guest spectator labaf also known biggest culture picnic continent plethora different activity funfilled deeply intellectual purpose cultivate ad revive reading culture steady declinethe active promotion culture need keep encouraging speaking writing indigenous language festival promoted sell book promote art impact art book society every stratum spectrum demography several writing reading competition promoted labaf official website