The State of African Publishing: Kachifo Limited
Kachifo Limited is an independent publishing house in Lagos, Nigeria created in 2004 to "tell our own stories". They are publishers of Farafina Books, Prestige Books and Farafina Magazine (2004 - 2009). Through Farafina Books they publish fiction, coffee table, general interest and children's books, and we get contemporary African writing and amazing authors like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ben Okri, and Ngugi wa Thiong'O. They also established Farafina Trust, which aims to promote literature and literary skills in Africa. All in all, a pretty amazing publishing house working to revive reading and book culture.
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