Bibi Bakare-Yusuf

Bibi Bakare-Yusuf is a Nigerian academic, writer and editor from Lagos, Nigeria. She is the co-founder of the publishing company Cassava Republic Press with her partner Jeremy Weate in 2006 in Federal Capital Territory (Abuja) with a focus on affordability, the need to find and develop local talent, and to publish African writers too often celebrated only in Europe and America. In November 2016, Bibi started a non governmental organization (NGO) The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERS), working to improve and protect Human rights on minorities Nigeria and West Africa.