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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.



Here are some of the wonderful works they publish and you can find out more about Kachifo on their website. 



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I recently read an article on the state of African publishing and it got me thinking about local publishing houses. As a kid growing up in Nigeria it wasn't very easy to find books by Nigerians (or other Africans) in the few bookshops I used to visit. Ok! I exaggerate - you could find textbooks for school, but fiction not as much. I honestly grew up believing Nigeria didn't have a reading culture. When I got older and I got interested in development, I realised that Nigeria's publishing industry (like most industries in Nigeria) suffered in the 1980s, when structural adjustment programmes were introduced. Maybe that's why I grew up finding it easier to find American and European novels than Nigerian ones and also probably why I didn't really get into African literature until I was in my late-teens - I didn't really have access to it. 


Fast forward to today and now I can find books in Nigeria by not only Nigerians, but other Africans. The fact is Africa's publishing industry is growing but there is still a lot to be done - growth and development of indigenous publishing houses, promotion of books, and reviving reading and book culture. I always focus on positivity so in posts to come I'm going to focus on those publishing houses, like Cassava Republic and Kachifo Limited in Nigeria and Kwani? and Storymoja Publishers in Kenya, that are reviving Africa's publishing industry and making books accessible to book lovers like me.
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bookshy is a space where I celebrate, promote and recognise contemporary African literature - although sometimes I go back in time to commemorate the greats. It is about the books I love, the books I have read and the books that I am dying to read.

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