diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index c68e9edf63..abbdb74a0d 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -579,6 +579,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-extras = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-git = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-gitdb = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-iniparse = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-libarchive-c = "Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-mako = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-nose = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-numpy = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-libarchive-c_2.9.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-libarchive-c_2.9.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4983ae527a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-libarchive-c_2.9.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+SUMMARY = "Python interface to libarchive"
+DESCRIPTION = "A Python interface to libarchive. It uses the standard ctypes module to \
+    dynamically load and access the C library."
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/Changaco/python-libarchive-c"
+LICENSE = "CC0-1.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.md;md5=bcab380227a83bc147350b40a81e6ffc"
+
+PYPI_PACKAGE = "libarchive-c"
+
+inherit pypi setuptools3
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "083bd2cb0043c1e22a52cb9a05e31532"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "9919344cec203f5db6596a29b5bc26b07ba9662925a05e24980b84709232ef60"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "libarchive"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"