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The Visibility and Accessibility of Literary Archives of Writers and Publishers of African Descent in Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Kadija George
Kadija George*
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Brighton University, Brighton, U.K.
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Book publishers New Beacon Books and Bogle-L'Ouverture Press that were established in the UK in 1966 and 1968 respectively, have recently become more familiar to the public due to the gallery exhibitions ‘No Colour Bar’ at London's Guildhall Gallery andjhe ‘Dream to change the world: the life and legacy of John La Rose’ atlslington Museum, in 2015. Not only have the exhibitions, accompanied by events, opened the windows to the work of these radical Black publishers and their campaigning activities, equally important is that, in the same mode of their ethos of inclusion and community sharing, other Black independent publishing outfits and writers have since benefited from the increased awareness of the work which was produced and the organisations behind them.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 134: Papers from SCOLMA Conference 2018: Things come together? Literary archives from, in and for Africa, University of Birmingham, 10 September, 2018 , 2018 , pp. 3 - 11
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Copyright © African Research & Documentation 2018

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