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 alike to a global audience. We have offices in Abuja and London.
Our mission is to change the way we all think about African writing. We think that contemporary African prose should be rooted in African experience in all its diversity, 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.
We also think the time has come to build a new body of African writing that links writers and readers from Benin to Bahia. It’s therefore the right time to ask challenging questions of African writing – where have we come from, where are we now, where are we going? 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
Rhoda Nuhu
Head of Marketing
Boblin Okoro
Creative Director/ Visual Story teller
