Kachifo Limited
Nigerian independent publishing company
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" 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 imprint of Kachifo Limited that publishes literary and popular fiction, textbooks, coffee table, general interest and children's books.
Farafina published the Nigerian edition of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, the winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and her Half of a Yellow Sun, winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Other award recipients include Sefi Atta's 2006 Everything Good Will Come and Nnedi Okorafor's 2005 Zahrah the Windseeker, both winners of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.
Prestige Books
Prestige Books is a subsidy publishing imprint of Kachifo Limited.
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