Kachifo Limited
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Kachifo Limited is an independent publishing house based in Lagos, Nigeria. It was founded in 2004 by Muhtar Bakare. Its imprints include Farafina Books, Farafina Educational, Prestige Books and Farafina Magazine.
Kachifo's work is notable in postcolonial literature for helping lay "the foundations of a pan-African literary network"[1] alongside Cassava Republic Press and Nairobi-based publishers Kwani Trust. Several Nigerian authors who have later achieved international success either worked at Kachifo or were first published by Kachifo, including Oyinkan Braithwaite, Petina Gappah, and Bisi Adjapon.
Farafina Books
Farafina Books is an independent publisher of literary and popular fiction, textbooks, coffee table, general interest and children's books.
Farafina publishes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus that won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and her Half of a Yellow Sun that received the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Further award recipients published by Farafina include Sefi Atta's 2006 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa-winning Everything Good Will Come[citation needed] and Nnedi Okorafor's Zahrah the Windseeker, recipient of the 2008 Wole Soyinka Prize.[citation needed]
Prestige Books
Prestige Books is a subsidy publishing imprint of Kachifo Limited.
Farafina Magazine
Farafina Magazine is a general-interest magazine with each issue compiled by a guest editor. Editors have included the writers Uzodinma Iweala, Molara Wood, Okey Ndibe, and Petina Gappah. It has featured the works of Wole Soyinka, Segun Afolabi, Uche James Iroha, Funmi Iyanda, Dinaw Mengestu, Barbara Murray, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jackee Budesta Batanda, Helon Habila, Tosin Oshinowo, Patrice Nganang, Jide Alakija, and Nnedi Okorafor.
External links
- ^ Kate Wallis. "Exchanges in Nairobi and Lagos: Mapping Literary Networks and World Literary Space". Retrieved 18 Oct 2022.