Getting Published

Kachifo Limited is the publisher of Farafina Books, Prestige Books and Farafina Magazine. Please read below for more information on having your work published with us.

Farafina Books

1.       What is the process for getting published by Farafina Books?

To have your work considered for publication, please submit up to three chapters (any three) in Microsoft word format via email to submissions@kachifo.com. You may also submit a synopsis, detailed proposal or concept note.

Your submission will be acknowledged, read and assessed by our editors. We will respond within 8 weeks if we are provisionally interested in publishing your work or learning more about it. Unfortunately, due to the volume of submissions we receive, we cannot respond to submissions which we do not accept for publication.

Please note that we only accept submissions via email to submissions@kachifo.com. Unsolicited submissions sent to other Kachifo email addresses may be missed. Unsolicited hard copy submissions will not be acknowledged or returned.

2.       What kind of books and authors are you looking for?

Farafina Books currently publishes literary and popular fiction, textbooks and other children’s books, and coffee table and general interest books by Africans or on Africa. We are interested in publishing both established, new and previously unpublished writers.

We do not currently publish poetry, motivational, self-help or religious books. To have such works published, please consider the services of our subsidy imprint, Prestige Books, details below.

3.       What happens if my work is accepted for publication?

If we choose to publish your work, you will be offered a contract stating the terms of publication, including your royalties, the timeline for publication and the respective obligations and rights of the author and publisher. You will then be assigned an editor who will manage the production of your book and work closely with you to ensure that the final product meets our mutual standards and expectations. As your book nears completion, our marketing and PR department will liase with you to begin to plan appropriate publicity for your book.

4.       Do I have to pay? Will I get paid?

Authors do not have to pay to have their work published by Farafina Books. We bear the cost of publishing, promoting and selling your book. For this, we receive the proceeds from the sales of the book, and authors typically earn a royalty or percentage on each copy sold. The rate of royalty depends on the nature of the book, and typically ranges between 1 and 10%.

Books published through our subsidy imprint, Prestige Books are fully paid for by the author or client.

Still have more questions?

Please email submissions@kachifo.com with further enquiries on how to publish with Farafina Books. Please allow up to one week for a response. No calls or unsolicited visits to our office please.

Prestige Books

Prestige Books is the subsidy publishing imprint of Kachifo Limited. Under Prestige, authors, institutions and other clients contract our skills and expertise to publish their books, including editing, proofreading, design, layout and printing as required. We do not distribute, market or sell Prestige Books.

To assess the cost of publishing your book with Prestige, please email prestigebooks@kachifo.com to receive our publication checklist, on which you will be asked to specify the details of your book project. The fee for this assessment is N5,000. A detailed quotation will be sent to you within two weeks of receipt of the checklist and payment.

Prestige Books offers an exclusive service, designed to produce books of highest quality for our clients. Please note that the minimum project management fee is N250,000.

All enquiries about Prestige Books should be directed to prestigebooks@kachifo.com. Please allow up to one week for a response.

Farafina Magazine

Farafina Magazine is a magazine of culture, art and ideas with a bias for Africa and we are always on the look-out for engaging content. If you are unfamiliar with the magazine, please visit www.farafinamagazine.com to read the latest edition.

We welcome interviews, reviews and essays, cartoons, drawings, photographs, short stories and poetry. Submissions should be original, topical and relate to any part of Africa, or to people of African ancestry living in any part of the world.

Each issue of Farafina Magazine contains a mix of images, commissioned and uncommissioned articles.

Images

Send low resolution photographs and illustrations (including cartoons) to submissions@farafinamagazine.com. Alternatively, you can also send a link to an online portfolio where the editorial team can view your work. If selected, Farafina editors will contact you in order to get a high resolution image.

Commissioned articles

Before a writer can be commissioned, he/she should send a pitch. A pitch is a text of about 200 words which states the topic the writer intends to tackle, what makes this topic relevant to Farafina readers and who the writer plans to interview. It should also give a date by when the piece will be submitted and estimate the word count of the final piece. If the piece is accepted, the contributor will receive a commissioning document. Send your pitches to submissions@farafinamagazine.com.

Uncommissioned articles

Uncommissioned articles of 700-5,000 words are welcome by email in Microsoft Word format to submissions@farafinamagazine.com. Include a summary of the article in the body of your email which states the topic the writer dealt with, what makes this topic relevant to Farafina readers and who was interviewed.

Pitches will receive a response within two weeks. Uncommissioned pieces (excluding poems and short stories) will receive a response within eight weeks. Due to the large number of poems and short stories we receive, only accepted entries will receive a response.

All original submissions of images and text are paid according to the means of the magazine.