Renowned publisher, Kachifo Limited, is set to release new titles ranging from children’s and literary fiction to poetry in the month of October.
A statement from the company’s Managing Editor, Uche Okonkwo, said they are not only delighted to announce the new titles, but that there is “sure to be something here for everyone”.
Among the books are: Afro: The Girl with the Magical Hair by Okechukwu Ofili, The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician by Tendai Huchu, Blackass by Igoni Barrett and The Stress Test by Mojisola Aboyade-Cole.
The others are: It Wasn’t Exactly Love by Farafina Trust Workshop Class 2012, A Handful of Dust by Farafina Trust Workshop Class 2013, For Broken Men Who Cross Often by Efe Paul Azino and Thunder Protocol by Obari Gomba.
Ofili, whose book is about Afro, a special girl who chooses to wear her hair natural in a land where an evil queen makes everyone wear it in straight weaves, is an author, motivational speaker and engineer. He wrote How Laziness Saved My Life and How Stupidity Saved My Life. This is his first book for children and is published under Kachifo Limited’s Farafina Tuuti imprint.
Huchu’s short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Manchester Review, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Gutter, AfroSF, Wasafiri, The Africa Report, Kwani? and numerous other publications. He was shortlisted for the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing. The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician is his second novel.
Barrett is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Centre Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Centre Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, Or Something Like That, was published in 2013 by Kachifo Limited. Blackass is his first novel.
Aboyade-Cole draws inspiration from her years in the banking industry. She is interested in the dynamic economic and social situations faced by females in the Nigerian financial industry. The Stress Test is her second novel. It is published under Kachifo Limited’s Farafina Breeze imprint.
Azino is one of Nigeria’s leading performance poets. He has performed at many of Nigeria’s foremost performance poetry venues, including Ake Arts and Book Festival, British Council Lagos, Taruwa Festival of Performing Arts, The Future Awards, Bogobiri, Lagos Book and Arts Festival and several others. For Broken Men Who Cross Often is his first poetry collection, published under Kachifo Limited’s Farafina Kamsi imprint.
Gomba teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT). His poetry collection, Length of Eyes, was listed by the jury of the Nigeria Prize for Literature as one of the best 11 poetry books in 2013. Thunder Protocol is published under Kachifo Limited’s Farafina Kamsi imprint.
Okonkwo explained that the titles will be available in major bookshops and from online retailers nationwide from next month.