# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bibi-bakare-yusuf
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:07:54.878Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bibi-bakare-yusuf"
name: "Bibi Bakare-Yusuf"
slug: "bibi-bakare-yusuf"
description: "Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Hon. FRSL is a Nigerian academic, writer and editor from Lagos, Nigeria. She co-founded the publishing company Cassava Republic Press in 2006, in Abuja with Jeremy Weate. Cassava Republic Press was created 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. Bakare-Yusuf was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019, as well as having been selected as a Yale World Fellow, a Desmond Tutu Fellow and a Frankfurt Book Fair Fellow."
tagline: "Nigerian academic, writer and editor from Lagos, Nigeria."
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "NG"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump