OUR STORY
Cassava Republic Press was founded in Abuja, Nigeria, 2006 with the aim of bringing high quality fiction and non-fiction for adults and children to a global audience. We have offices in Abuja and London.
Our mission is to change the way we all think about writing from Africa and her diaspora, whether set in filthy-yet-sexy megacities such as Lagos or Kinshasa, in little-known communities outside of Bahia, in the recent past or indeed the near future.
And because literature is not merely a mirror, but a window to many worlds, we believe in its radical power to confront injustice, and help re-imagine more just, capacious futures. We do not only want stories that reflect the world as we know it but interrogate it in the process of creating new possibilities.
We also think the time has come to build a new body of writing that links writers and readers from Benin to Bahia. It’s therefore the right time to ask challenging questions of Black writing – where have we come from, where are we now, where are we going and who owns the means of production? Our role is to facilitate and participate in addressing these questions, as our list grows. We are still just beginning.
MEET THE TEAM
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
Founder and Director
Layla Mohamed
Editor
Kofo Okunola
DIRECTOR OF SALES
Adeyinka Adewole
Finance and Operations MANAGER
Nnaemeka NNam
Digital Marketing and I.T Specialist
Rhoda Nuhu
Head of Marketing
Boblin Okoro
Creative Director/ Visual Story teller
