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Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications
Bogle-L’Ouverture Publications (BLP) is a radical London-based publishing company founded in 1968 by Guyanese activists Jessica Huntley (23 February 1927 – 13 October 2013)〔Margaret Busby, ("Jessica Huntley obituary" ), ''The Guardian'', 27 October 2013.〕 and Eric Huntley (born 25 September 1929).〔Margaret Andrews, ''Doing Nothing is Not An Option: The Radical Lives of Eric & Jessica Huntley'', Middlesex, England: Krik Krak, 2014. ISBN 978-1-908415-02-8.〕 Named in honour of two outstanding liberation fighters in Caribbean history, Toussaint L'Ouverture and Paul Bogle,〔("Creation for Liberation Parts 1 and 2 (1979 and 1981)" ), YouTube video.〕 the company began operating during a period in the UK when "books by Black authors or written with a sympathetic view of Black people’s history and culture were rare in mainstream bookshops in the UK."〔Andrews (2014), p. 113.〕 Alongside New Beacon Books (founded in 1966) and Allison & Busby (founded in 1967), BLP was one of the first black-owned independent publishing companies in the UK.〔("Bogle L'Ouverture Publications" ), The Radical Lives of Eric & Jessica Huntley website.〕〔("Towards a radical black publishing space" ), George Padmore Institute.〕 BLP has been described as "a small, unorthodox, self-financing venture that brought a radical perspective to non-fiction, fiction, poetry and children's books."〔("PPP remembers fallen Party stalwart, Jessica Huntley –in 'Evening of Tributes and Reflection'" ), ''Guyana Chronicle'', 9 November 2013.〕
==History==
The birth of Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications was a direct response〔 to the 1968 banning from Jamaica of historian and scholar Walter Rodney, who was then teaching at the University of the West Indies in Mona and outside the lecture halls had been sharing his knowledge and exchanging ideas with the island's working people, prompting the government's censure. Thousands of Jamaicans took to the streets protesting the ban and in London a group of concerned West Indians — the Huntleys, Richard Small, Ewart Thomas, Andrew Salkey and others〔Andrews (2014), pp. 115–121.〕 – decided to challenge it by publishing and distributing Rodney's speeches and lectures. These were published in 1969 as BLP's first title, ''The Groundings With My Brothers'', financed by friends and community funding, and much reprinted.〔Petamber Persaud, ("Preserving Our Literary Heritage" ), ''Guyana Chronicle'', 2 August 2014.〕〔("Bogle-L'Ouverture" ), George Padmore Institute.〕 Speaking in 1979 at an event marking BLP's 10th anniversary, Jessica Huntley recalled: "It was a political position we took.... We barely made the money to pay the printer.... We just gave away a lot of copies to people so people must read it."〔 The company went on also to become the original publisher (jointly with Tanzania Publishing House) in 1972 of Rodney's influential work ''How Europe Underdeveloped Africa''.
Among other notable titles on the BLP list are Linton Kwesi Johnson's ''Dread Beat and Blood'', Beryl Gilroy's ''Black Teacher'', several books by Andrew Salkey (a director and long-time supporter of BLP),〔("Bogle-L’Ouverture: A story in Black publishing" ), ''Guyana Chronicle'', 8 January 2012. (Extract from an interview with Rickford Benjamin-Huntley, Georgetown, Guyana, December 2011.)〕 ''Journey to an Illusion: The West Indian in Britain'' by Donald Hinds,〔 and poetry collections by Valerie Bloom, Sam Greenlee, Lemn Sissay,〔Lemn Sissay has said: "Holding that first book in my young hands – I was 21 – was one of the most life affirming experiences of my existence to date. It was a gift bestowed by two incredible people, Jessica and Eric Huntley, at a small important publishing house in Ealing West London called Bogle-L'Ouverture." ("Meet the 2014 Authors – Lemn Sissay" ), Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, 09-02-2014.〕 Lucinda Roy, Imruh Bakari and John Lyons.〔"Selected Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications", in Andrews (2014), pp. 179–181.〕
Bogle-L'Ouverture was also involved in educational interventions on behalf of Black children and parents — crucially highlighted in Bernard Coard's ''How the West Indian Child Is Made Educationally Subnormal in the British School System: The Scandal of the Black Child in Schools in Britain'' (New Beacon, 1971); as Gus John has written: "So, when in our work with young children we discovered that black children were typically drawing themselves as white, or expressing a preference for white dolls and seeing white friends as 'nicer' and more desirable, Jessica and Eric published the eye-catching and upbeat little colouring and story book ''Getting to Know Ourselves'' (Bernard and Phyllis Coard, 1972 )."〔Gus John, ("Jessica Huntley, veteran political and cultural activist dies at 86" ), 14 October 2013.〕
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