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.
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.
Prestige Books
Prestige Books is a subsidy publishing imprint of Kachifo Limited.
Farafina Magazine
Farafina Magazine is a quarterly publication (it was a bi-monthly until September 2007) that provides a high-quality medium for people all over the world to freely express their world view. It is a general-interest magazine written in simple uncluttered prose and illustrated with humorous drawings and photographs. The magazine has received strong commendations from people from different walks of life.[citation needed]
Every issue of the magazine is compiled by a guest editor. Guest editors for the magazine have included the writers Uzodinma Iweala, Molara Wood, Okey Ndibe, and Petina Gappah.
Farafina Magazine 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, Nnedi Okorafor and a plethora of other writers and graphical artists.