Kachifo Limited

Kachifo Limited
Founded2004; 20 years ago (2004)
FoundersMuhtar Bakare
Country of originNigeria
Headquarters locationLagos, Nigeria
ImprintsFarafina Books; Farafina Educational; Prestige Books
Official websitewww.kachifo.com

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, and Prestige Books. From 2004 to 2009, it published the influential 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.[2][3] 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.

  1. ^ Wallis, Kate (Spring 2018). "Exchanges in Nairobi and Lagos: Mapping Literary Networks and World Literary Space". Research in African Literatures. 49 (1). Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  2. ^ Suhr-Sytsma, Nathan (September 2018). "The extroverted African novel and literary publishing in the twenty-first century". Journal of African Cultural Studies. 30 (3). Retrieved 18 Oct 2022.
  3. ^ Otas, Belinda (20 August 2010). "Nigeria's Farafina Books: Publishing By Africans for Africans". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 18 October 2022.