Launching CrestGate Press: A Services-First & Hybrid Publishing House for African Thought Leaders

Led by CEO & Editor-in-Chief Dr. Yirabari Faith Baridam, CrestGate Press joins the A-Waves Holdings portfolio to serve founders, professionals, corporates, institutions, and ministries.

A-Waves Holdings Ltd is proud to announce the addition of CrestGate Press to the group portfolio. Led by Dr. Yirabari Faith Baridam as Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief, CrestGate Press operates as a professional publishing house structured around a services-first business model and hybrid press architecture.

Across the continent, executives, founders, corporate institutions, and ministry leaders possess invaluable domain knowledge that rarely gets documented to global editorial standards. Fragmented editing pipelines, complex ISBN and legal-deposit administration, and inconsistent print quality have historically stood in the way.

Bridging the Editorial and Production Gap

“Across Africa, founders, executives, and institutions hold decades of hard-won operational wisdom that never reaches print. CrestGate Press exists to turn that experience into enduring intellectual legacy.”

With the release of 'Too Many Hats' already opening doors among founders and professionals, CrestGate Press launches with a clear mandate: delivering manuscript assessment, ghostwriting and developmental writing, structural and copy editing, bespoke book production and typesetting, ISBN/CIP and legal-deposit administration, print brokerage, and coordinated launch distribution.

Within the A-Waves Holdings ecosystem, CrestGate Press also strengthens our group-wide multiplier effect — serving as the publishing and editorial engine for corporate clients advised by A-Waves Business & Brand Consult, emerging entrepreneurs trained through MAID / Afri Street ID, and research outputs generated across the group.