Bibi Bakare-Yusuf

Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
Hon. FRSL
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Lagos, Nigeria
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Academic, writer and editor and publisher
Known forCo-founder of Cassava Republic Press

Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Hon. FRSL (born 1970) is a Nigerian academic, writer and editor from Lagos, Nigeria. She co-founded the publishing company Cassava Republic Press in 2006, in Abuja with Jeremy Weate.[1] Cassava Republic Press was created with a focus on affordability, the need to find and develop local talent, and to publish African writers too often celebrated only in Europe and America.[2] Bakare-Yusuf was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019, as well as having been selected as a Yale World Fellow, a Desmond Tutu Fellow and a Frankfurt Book Fair Fellow.[3]

  1. ^ "Bibi Bakare-Yusuf". Archived 29 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Aké Arts & Book Festival.
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  3. ^ "Bibi Bakare-Yusuf". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 7 September 2021.