Bibi Bakare-Yusuf is co-founder and publishing director of one of Africa’s leading publishing houses, Cassava Republic Press. She has worked as a gender and research consultant in the public, private and development sectors. She co-founded Tapestry Consulting, a boutique research and training company focused on gender, sexuality and transformational issues in Nigeria. She is also an independent scholar and sits on the editorial board of a number of journals. Bibi is also a Yale World Fellow and Desmond Tutu Fellow and a Frankurt Book Fair Fellow.