A tribute to Buzz Johnson (1951–2014), who created in the UK one of the most important and prolific black publishing houses on and for Caribbean peoples. For him publishing – anything from forgotten history to rap poetry, social commentary and fiction – which related to the Caribbean or the struggles of its peoples in the UK – was part of public education. He managed to recover forgotten histories, get up-and-coming writers known and keep in print classics by Caribbean stalwarts, and all without financial backing and commercial back-up. An example, argues the author, of an activist-publisher and true educator.
SearleChris ed., Tales of Mozambique (London, Young World Books, 1980; republished by Karia Press, 1990).
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Peptela, Ngunga’s Adventures: a story of Angola (London, Young World Books, 1990).
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SearleChris, ed., One for Blair (London, Young World Books, 1989).
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SearleChris, ed., Callaloo: four writers from Grenada (London, Young World Books, 1984).
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DalphinisMorgan, Caribbean and African Languages: social history, language, literature and education (London, Karia Press, 1986).
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DevonishHubert, Language and Liberation: Creole language politics in the Caribbean (London, Karia Press, 1986).
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JohnsonBuzz, ‘I Think of My Mother’: notes on the life and times of Claudia Jones (London, Karia Press, 1985).
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FordAmos A., Telling the Truth: the life and times of the British Honduran forestry unit in Scotland (1941–44) (London, Karia Press, 1985).
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SherwoodMarika, Many Struggles: West Indian workers and service personnel in Britain (1939–45) (London, Karia Press, 1985).
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ElderJ. D., African Survivals in Trinidad and Tobago (London, Karia Press, 1988).
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SpringerPearl Eintou, Out of the Shadows (London, Karia Press, 1986).
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ThomasElean, World Rhythms from the Life of a Woman (London, Karia Press, 1985) and ThomasElean, Before They Can Speak of Flowers: word rhythms (London, Karia Press, 1988).
RossJacob, Song for Simone (London, Karia Press, 1986).
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CollinsMerle, Because the Dawn Breaks (London, Karia Press, 1985).
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LammingGeorge, Conversations: essays, addresses and interviews (London, Karia Press, 1992).
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Lord GiffordQC (Chair), Broadwater Farm Inquiry (London, Karia Press, 1985).
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Lord GiffordQC (Chair), Broadwater Farm Revisited (London, Karia Press, 1989).
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Lord GiffordQC (Chair), Loosen the Shackles: first report of the Liverpool 8 inquiry into race relations in Liverpool (London, Karia Press, 1989).
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O’CallaghanEvelyn, The Earliest Patriots (London, Karia Press, 1986).
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TrillCarol, Dispossessed Daughter of Africa (London, Karia Press, 1985).
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MarkeErnest, In Troubled Waters: memoirs of seventy years in England (London, Karia Press, 1986).
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NzenzaSekai, The Autobiography of a Zimbabwean Woman (London, Karia Press, 1985).
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SWAPO, Tell Them of Namibia: poems from the national liberation struggle (London, Karia Press, 1986).
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JonesValentino O., We are Our Own Educators! Josina Machel: from supplementary to Black complementary school (London, Karia Press, 1986).
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CoardBernard, How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Sub-normal in the British School System (London, New Beacon Books, 1971; republished by Karia Press, 1991).
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CoardPhyllis, U.S. War on One Woman (London, Karia Press, 1988).
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SearleChris, Grenada Morning: a memoir of the ‘Revo’ (London, Karia Press, 1989).
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SearleChris, A Blindfold Removed: Ethiopia’s struggle for literacy (London, Karia Press, 1991).
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HartRichard, Rise and Organise: the birth of the workers and national movements in Jamaica (London, Karia Press, 1989).
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Chisiya, Afrikan Lullaby: folk tales from Zimbabwe (London, Karia Press, 1986).
