Kachifo Limited

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, Prestige Books and Farafina Magazine.

Farafina Books

Farafina Books is an independent publisher of literary and popular fiction, textbooks, coffee table, general interest and children's books.

Farafina publishes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus that won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and her Half of a Yellow Sun that received the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Further award recipients published by Farafina include Sefi Atta's 2006 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa-winning Everything Good Will Come and Nnedi Okorafor's Zahrah the Windseeker, recipient of the 2008 Wole Soyinka Prize.

Prestige Books

Prestige Books is a subsidy publishing imprint of Kachifo Limited.

Farafina Magazine
Main article: Farafina Magazine

Farafina Magazine is a general-interest magazine with each issue compiled by a guest editor. Editors have included the writers Uzodinma Iweala, Molara Wood, Okey Ndibe, and Petina Gappah. It has featured the works of Wole Soyinka, Segun Afolabi, Uche James Iroha, Funmi Iyanda, Dinaw Mengestu, Barbara Murray, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jackee Budesta Batanda, Helon Habila, Tosin Oshinowo, Patrice Nganang, Jide Alakija, and Nnedi Okorafor.

gollark: Generally, I'm pretty sure *consistently* defending (physically) against armed people when you are *not* armed is not really possible.
gollark: But there's probably a selection effect where people who both have guns and are really stupid about using them soon die/get imprisoned and no longer go around with guns.
gollark: I suppose there are a lot of stupid people.
gollark: I mean, that sort of thing might work *rarely* and/or on really stupid people, but almost certainly not consistently.
gollark: Oh yes, disarm someone with a gun while unarmed, you can DEFINITELY do that without DYING HORRIBLY.
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