Bibi Bakare-Yusuf named a Yale World Fellow

Bankole Olayebi, Chukwuemeka Ike and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf at GCLF

The founder of the Nigerian publishing house Cassava Republic Press has been named a 2012 Yale World Fellow. According to The Guardian:

Bakare-Yusuf is among 16 World Fellows selected this year, from a pool of about 2, 500 applicants. This year’s cohort brings the total number of Yale World Fellows since the program’s inception in 2002 to 224 Fellows, representing 79 countries.

The Yale World Fellows Program is the University’s signature global leadership development initiative and a core element of Yale’s ongoing commitment to internationalization. Each year, the University invites a group of exemplary mid-career professionals from a wide range of fields and countries for an intensive four-month period of academic enrichment and leadership training.

Cassava Republic Press are regular participants in the GCLF book fair, and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf was seminar discussant at the 2010 festival.