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A Black radical publishing house founded in London in 1969 by the Guyanese activists Jessica and Eric Huntley, and named after Paul Bogle and Toussaint Louverture. It published Walter Rodney's The Groundings with My Brothers (1969) and, jointly with Tanzania Publishing House, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), along with poetry and fiction by Linton Kwesi Johnson, Beryl Gilroy, Valerie Bloom and others. Its Walter Rodney Bookshop in West Ealing (opened 1974) closed in 1990, but the house continued as Bogle-L'Ouverture Press from the Huntleys' home. Its archives are held at the London Metropolitan Archives.

Years

1969–present

Location

London, United Kingdom

Name history

1969–? Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications
?–present Bogle-L'Ouverture Press — After the bookshop closed in 1990

Also known as

Bogle-L'Ouverture Press

Languages

English

Authority records

Wikidata

Sources

Wikipedia — Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications

Backlist

Titles of Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications by year: 105 dated titles, 1969–2016, most in 1993 (11); 1 undated. Lines mark founded 1969.

The figures by decade

Decade	Titles
1960s	1
1970s	20
1980s	32
1990s	39
2000s	12
2010s	1

Year	Title	Author(s)	Language
1969	The Groundings with My Brothers✓Free — With an Introduction by Richard Small	Walter Rodney	English
1971	One Love✓	Audvil King	English
1971	The Groundings with My Brothers✓Free	Walter Rodney & Richard Small	English
1972	How Europe Underdeveloped Africa✓Free	Walter Rodney	English
1973	Anancy's Score✓ Black Short Fiction	Andrew Salkey	English
1973	How Europe Underdeveloped Africa✓Free	Walter Rodney	English
1974	How Europe Underdeveloped Africa✓Free	Walter Rodney	English
1974	Joey Tyson✓	Andrew Salkey	English
1975	Ammunition!✓ — Poetry and Other Raps	Sam Greenlee	English
1975	Dread Beat and Blood✓ Caribbean Literature	Linton Kwesi Johnson	English
1975	Minerals in African Underdevelopment	Samuel A. Ocholf	English
1975	Pygmies Direction✓ The African Heritage Series	Dau Aldulpha	English
1975	Rain Falling, Sun Shining✓	Odette Thomas	English
1975	The Groundings with My Brothers✓Free	Walter Rodney	English
1976	How Europe Underdeveloped Africa✓	Walter Anthony Rodney	English
1977	At School Today✓	Accabre Huntley	English
1977	Writing in Cuba Since the Revolution✓ — An Anthology of Poems, Short Stories and Essays. Edited and Introduced By	Andrew Salkey	English
1978	How Europe Underdeveloped Africa✓	Walter Anthony Rodney	English
1978	The Emancipation of Wakefield Clay✓ — A Novel	Randall Robinson	English
1979	The River That Disappeared✓	Andrew Salkey	English
1979	The River That Disappeared (Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications Children's)	Andrew Salkey	Not recorded
1980	Caribbean Folk Tales and Legends✓	Andrew Salkey	English
December 1980	Danny Jones	Andrew Salkey	English
1980	Dreat Beat and Blood✓	Linton Kwesi Johnson & Andrew Salkey	English
1980	How Europe Underdeveloped Africa✓Free	Walter Rodney	English
1980	Self-Reliance✓ — A Strategy for Development	Ignacy Sachs, Johan Galtung, Peter O'Brien & Roy Adrian Preiswerk	English
1981	Countryman Karl Black✓	Neville Farki	English
1981	Signposts of the Jumbie✓ Caribbean Literature	Faustin Charles	English
1982	Dread Beat and Blood	Linton Kwesi Johnson	English
December 1983	Countryman Karl Black	Neville Farki	Not recorded
1983	Easter Monday Blues✓	Accabre Huntley	English
1983	Hour of Assassins & Other Poems✓	Cecil Rajendra	English
1983	How Europa Underdevelopped Africa✓	Walter Rodney	English
1983	How Europe underdeveloped Africa✓Free	Walter Rodney	Not recorded
1983	Jamaica✓ Caribbean Literature	Andrew Salkey	English
December 1983	Railton Blues✓ — A Novel	David Simon	English
1983	The Groundings with My Brothers✓Free	Walter Rodney	English
1983	Touch Mi, Tell Mi✓ Black Women Writers	Valerie Bloom	English
1985	Dread Beat and Blood✓	Linton Kwesi Johnson	English
1985	The One✓ — The Story of How the People of Guyana Avenge the Murder of Their Pasero with Help from Brother Anancy and Sister Buxton	Andrew Salkey	English
1986	Child of the Sun and Other Poems✓	Cecil Rajendra	English
1986	Days and Nights in the Magic Forest✓	Charles Faustin	English
1986	Secret Lives✓	Imruh Bakari	English
December 1986	Walter Rodney's Influence on the African Continent	Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo	English
December 1987	Marcus Mosiah Garvey	Eric L. Huntley & Friends of Bogle	English
1988	How Europe Underdeveloped Africa✓Free — 23rd March 1942 - 13th June 1980	Walter Rodney	English
October 1988	Tender Fingers in a Clenched Fist✓	Lemn Sissay	English
1988	Wailing the Dead to Sleep✓	Lucinda Roy	English
1988	Wailing the Dead to Slepp✓	Lucinda Roy	English
1989	Cecil Rajendra✓ — Bibliography and Selected Profiles, Reviews, Essays	Cecil Rajendra	English
1989	Cecil Rajendra, Bibliography✓ — & Selected Profiles, Reviews, Essays	—	English
1989	Lovers, Lunatics & Lallang✓	Cecil Rajendra	English
1989	Lure of the Cascadura✓ Caribbean Literature	John Lyons	English
1990	Paul Robeson — 9 March 1898 - 23 January 1976	Eusi Kwayana & Eric L. Huntley	English
1990	The Groundings with My Brothers✓Free	Walter Rodney	English
October 1990	Touch Mi, Tell Mi✓	Valerie Bloom	English
1991	Joey Tyson✓	Andrew Salkey	English
1991	Papa Moose's Nursery Rhymes for Our Times✓	Cecil Rajendra	English
December 3, 1992	Anancy, Traveller✓ Black Short Fiction	Andrew Salkey	English
December 3, 1992	Anancy's Score✓	Andrew Salkey	English
December 3, 1992	Caribbean Folk Tales and Legends	Andrew Salkey	Not recorded
1992	Caribbean Folktales and Legends✓ Black Short Fiction	Andrew Salkey	English
1992	Easter Monday Blues	Accabre Huntley	Not recorded
1993	Child of the Sun	Rajendra Cecil	Not recorded
1993	Countryman Karl Black	Neville Farki	Not recorded
1993	Cry a Whisper✓	Lucy Safo	English
1993	Lure of the Cascadura	John Lyons	Not recorded
1993	Marcus Garvey	Eric L. Huntley	Not recorded
1993-01-11	River That Disappeared	Andrew Salkey	Not recorded
1993	The One	Andrew Salkey	Not recorded
1993	Touch Mi! Tell Mi!	Valerie Bloom	English
1993	Two Lives	Eric L. Huntley	Not recorded
1993	Two Lives, Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole	Eric L. Huntley	English
1993	Wailing the Dead to Sleep	Lucinda Roy	Not recorded
December 31, 1994	"Hour of Assassin" and Other Poems	Cecil Rajendra	English
1994	Black Teacher✓ Black Women Writers	Beryl Gilroy	English
1994	In the Trickster Tradition✓ — The Novels of Andrew Salkey, Francis Ebejer and Ishmael Reed	Peter Nazareth	English
1994	Lovers, Lunatics and Lallang	Cecil Rajendra	Not recorded
1994	Papa Moose's Nursery Rhymes	Cecil Rajendra	Not recorded
1994	The Life and Times of Cheddi Jagan✓	Eric L. Huntley	English
December 31, 1994	Walter Rodney	—	Not recorded
1997	Black Men in Britain✓ — Marching into the Millennium: Conference Report	—	English
1997	Black Men in Britain Marching into the Millennium Conference	C. Hylton	English
1998	Caribbean Folk Tales and Legends	Andrew Salkey	Not recorded
1998	In the Border Country and Other Stories✓ Black Short Fiction	Andrew Salkey	English
1999	Ackee, Breadfruit, Callaloo	Valerie Bloom	Not recorded
1999	Ackee, Breadfruit, Callaloo: An Edible Alphabet	Valerie Bloom	English
October 1, 1999	Classic Splendour Roots of Black History	Robin Walker	Not recorded
December 10, 1999	Classical Splendour✓ — Roots of Black History	Robin Walker	English
1999	Classical Splendour: Roots of Black History✓ — A Comprehensive Guide to the Ancient and Medieval History of Africa	Robin Walker	English
1999	Classical Splendour: Roots of Black History: A Comprehensive Guide to the Ancient and Mediaeval History of Africa	Robn Walker	English
1999	Roots of Black History✓ — Classical Splendour: A Comprehensive Guide to the Ancient and Medieval History of Africa	Robin Walker	English
2000	Journey as the Wire Bend	Lisa Levi & Wyvanwy Evans	Not recorded
2001	Journey to an Illusion✓ — The West Indian in Britain	Donald Hinds	English
2001	The Feast of the Nine Virgins✓	Jameela Siddiqi	English
2003	Making Time to Chat a Rhyme✓	Lennox Carty	English
2003	My Grandmother Sings to Me✓ Black Women Writers	Maureen Roberts	English
2006	By Trial and Terror	—	Not recorded
2006	Proverbs of Guyana Explained, The	James Speirs	English
2006	The Proverbs of Guyana Explained✓	Joyce Trotman	English
2007	A Soh Life Goh	Valerie Bloom	Not recorded
2007	Reasonings Seasonings Musings & Reveries✓	Nicholas Huntley	English
2007	Shrapnel, Silence and Sand	Cecil Rajendra	Not recorded
2009-01-01	Pulling the Punches: Defeating Domestic Violence	Luke Daniels	English
2016	Guyanese Komfa✓ — The Ritual Art of Trance	Michelle Yaa Asantewa	English
n.d.	Proverbs of Guyana Explained	James Speirs	Not recorded