Kafin Madaki

{{Use Nigerian English|date=January 2023}}

Kafin Madaki is the headquarters of Ganjuwa Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria.

It is a small town of about 20,000 people some 45 km north of Bauchi.

The economy is based primarily on farming, with cottage industries in weaving, iron-working, soap-making and brick-making. Water supply is based on boreholes.{{cite web

|url=http://www.partnersforwater.org/docs/an_rpt_06-07.pdf

|title=Kafin Madaki Water Supply and Sanitation project, Bauchi State

|work=Partners for Water Supply And Sanitation Annual Report 2006-7

|publisher=PAWS

|accessdate=2010-05-28

|archive-date=2009-12-12

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212023312/http://www.partnersforwater.org/docs/an_rpt_06-07.pdf

|url-status=dead

}}

In March 2008 the Bauchi state government started reconstruction of the General Hospital at Kafin Madaki, which had fallen into disrepair.{{cite web

|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200803311159.html

|title=New Face of Governance in Bauchi (1)

|work=Leadership

|author=Rilwanu Shehu Gusau

|date=31 March 2008

|accessdate=2010-05-28}}

The state Commissioner of Health inspected the construction of the new hospital in May 2010, and announced plans to hire additional medical personnel.{{cite web

|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201005170908.html

|title=Three Hospitals Get Specialist Status

|work=ThisDay

|author=Segun Awofadeji

|date=15 May 2010

|accessdate=2010-05-28}}

In September 2009, Bauchi state governor Isa Yuguda agreed to implement a plan laid out by his predecessor Adamu Mu'azu to turn the 52-year-old Yankari Game Reserve into an international ecotourism destination.

The plan included housing about 300 "foreign" animals from Namibia including Giraffe, Eland, Kudu, Impala and Zebra in an area of about eight square kilometres near Kafin Madaki.{{cite web

|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200909110734.html

|title=Transforming Yankari Game Reserve for Economic Gain

|work=Daily Trust

|author=Sani Adamu

|date=11 September 2009

|accessdate=2010-05-28}}

This area was highlighted in the 2018 film Up North.