Farafina Magazine Explained

Farafina
Frequency:	bi-monthly (2004–2009)
Company:	Kachifo Limited
Country:	Nigeria
Based:	Lagos
Language:	English

Farafina Magazine was a bi-monthly Nigerian magazine published online from 2002, and in print from October 2005, until 2009 by Kachifo Limited. It was a general-interest African magazine that included non-fiction articles alongside fiction pieces and illustrations.

Guest editors for the magazine included several notable authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Laila Lalami, and Petina Gappah. It published work by writers such as Wole Soyinka, Segun Afolabi, and Jide Alakija.

The magazine was considered important in postcolonial literature for helping lay "the foundations of a pan-African literary network"^[1] alongside the Nairobi-based literary magazine Kwani?.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Wallis . Kate . Exchanges in Nairobi and Lagos: Mapping Literary Networks and World Literary Space. Research in African Literatures . 49 . 1 . 18 Oct 2022.
2. Suhr-Sytsma . Nathan . The extroverted African novel and literary publishing in the twenty-first century. Journal of African Cultural Studies . 30 . 3 . 18 Oct 2022.