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GLIMPSES OF A GLOBAL KANPUR TO KOLKATA LIFE Labour Recruitment for the Shridath Ramphal Sugar Colonies This memoir involves a cast of the world’s Basdeo Mangru leading characters and the central role Shridath This unique publication provides a Ramphal played alongside them in issues such comprehensive assessment of labour recruiting as ending apartheid in South Africa, bringing operations from where the great majority of Zimbabwe to independence, and the release of Caribbean East Indians originated. Besides its Nelson Mandela. Leaders from every continent insightful analysis of crucial emigration issues, engaged with him as the longest serving this book highlights the grief and trauma of Secretary-General of the Commonwealth (1975-1990). The core of the book emigrants’ families, particularly the wives left is concerned with the fifteen years he served as Commonwealth Secretary- behind in . What is most interesting are the personal recollections of General, for eleven of which Margaret Thatcher was Britain’s Prime returnees with regard to the working and living conditions in the colonies Minister. and their special attraction, the uncertainties of the voyage and the socio- Glimpses of a Global Life is as well an analysis of major problems and economic conditions in Indian villages. challenges that dominated the 20th century which continue to shape the “... a vivid tapestry of ... Village India, depot operations, iniquitous police contours of the 21st. practice, degradation of women and the wrenching trauma of family “Shridath Ramphal ... understood the principles which were important to separation.” DR GARY GIRDHARI, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, GUYANA JOURNAL the strength and unity of the Commonwealth ... The world sorely needs more like him at the present time.” MALCOLM FRASER, PRIME MINISTER OF • Paperback, 120 pages, 216 x 138 mm AUSTRALIA (1975-1983) • £9.99 • ISBN 978-1-910553-00-8 “Sonny Ramphal describes his vision and crafts a rich account of his service to the international community. The book provides a timely THE PRICE OF CONSCIENCE reminder of the importance of multilateral cooperation.” KOFI ANNAN, Howard Noel Nankivell and SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS (1997-2006) labour unrest in the British “This is a book about tomorrow. Sonny Ramphal’s ‘glimpses’ of a recent past are powerful guides to our troubling future.” JOE CLARK, PRIME MINISTER Caribbean in 1937 and 1938 OF CANADA (1979-1980) Brinsley Samaroo “This is a beautifully written memoir composed with sharp insight and The British Empire was created by thousands of clear vision by one of the foremost statesmen of the 20th century...” IAN public officers who were despatched from MCDONALD, AUTHOR AND POET London to carve out an empire over which ‘the “Sonny Ramphal has written an extremely valuable book. I know first- sun would never set’. They were trained to hand of the patience and strong leadership he displayed in bringing the maintain law and order so that British investors Commonwealth nations together for the greatest achievements in its could obtain secure holdings in the various colonies. There was always a history ... [He] recaptures the drama and colour of some historic moments British military presence close at hand, which could easily be summoned accurately and well.” BRIAN MULRONEY, PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA (1984-1993) to keep the ‘natives’ under control. Equally, the education system was geared to socialise subject peoples into an acceptance of the greatness “... a brilliant recollection ... of an intellectual Titan whose breadth of talents of the British Empire. The vast majority of administrators expanded the and depth of experience resulted in the summons to serve on six Empire with little thought about the welfare of the colonised peoples. This international Commissions.” P.J. PATTERSON, PRIME MINISTER OF JAMAICA (1992- biography tells of an exception to this rule, Howard Noel Nankivell, who 2006) was born in Jamaica to a British naval family, educated in England and then employed as a civil servant in that island in 1911. This is the story of “... a beautifully written and revelatory story stemming not just from his a maverick senior public officer who dared to let conscience be his guide adroit use of 20th century papers released under the 30-year rule, but his and suffered the consequences. description of his ancestral past and the links between slavery and indenture.” LORD STEEL OF AIKWOOD, LEADER OF THE LIBERAL PARTY (1976-1988) • Paperback, 120 pages, 216 x 138 mm £9.99 ISBN 978-1-910553-04-6 • Hardback, 624 pages, 236 x 158 mm • • • £17.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-92-7 CUGOANO AGAINST GLIMPSES OF THE SUGAR SLAVERY INDUSTRY Martin Hoyles The Art of Garnet Ifill Out of the three leading black figures in eighteenth-century England (Sancho, Equiano The sugar industry in Trinidad and Tobago has and Cugoano), Ottobah Cugoano is the least well been considerably reduced in size and no longer known. Yet he was the most radical, campaigning dominates the landscape of central Trinidad as not just against the slave trade but for a ‘total it had done for more than two centuries. By the abolition of slavery’. Cugoano’s passionate middle of the twentieth century, most of the rhetoric and reasoned argument make his book elements of the industry were undergoing a milestone in anti-slavery literature. significant changes as modern technology replaced older, less efficient modes of production. At this critical juncture “A good, crisp and punchy account.” PROF. JAMES WALVIN, UNIVERSITY OF YORK of modernisation, Garnet Ifill, a young and visionary photographer, decided to capture the fading heritage. “A well-researched biography.” PROF. VINCENT CARRETTA, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND • Paperback, 80 pages, 210 x 280 mm • £9.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-98-9 • Paperback, 216 pages, 228 x 152 mm • £9.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-97-2

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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO DOMINICA Terrific and Tranquil Nature Island of the Caribbean 50th Anniversary of Independence Edition Second Edition Trinidad and Tobago is one of the most Dominica is a virtually unspoilt island whose cosmopolitan countries in the world. Since the volcanic peaks rise imposingly from the sea to arrival of Amerindian peoples more than ten create a magnificent landscape of forested thousand years ago, this twin-island, Caribbean mountains and river valleys. It is the most nation has become a melting pot of different mountainous of the Lesser Antilles and has the races, traditions, customs and religions. distinction of being home to the tallest peak in European colonisers and settlers from Africa, India, China and the Middle the Eastern Caribbean. Dominica’s reputation as the Nature Island of the East began arriving from the late 1400s. These disparate groups all played Caribbean is well earned because of its unspoilt landscape, natural beauty a part in influencing Trinidad and Tobago’s diverse and unique culture. and abundance of wild flora and fauna. The country is also known for its many rivers (“one for every day of the year”) and is renowned for its Birthplace of calypso music and the steel pan, and home to the world famous spectacular waterfalls. Consistently rated as a leading dive destination, Trinidad Carnival, the nation boasts one of the most exclusive tourism Dominica’s marine life is considered to be among the best in the world. It destinations in the world (Tobago) and an emerging eco-tourism sector. is also the foremost whale-watching destination in the Caribbean. Lavishly illustrated with over two hundred photographic images, it is Illustrated with more than two hundred photographic images, Dominica: published to commemorate the nation’s 50th anniversary of Nature Island of the Caribbean is an insight into one of the Caribbean’s independence (1962-2012). best-kept secrets.

• Hardback, 248 pages, 286 x 220 mm • Hardback, 240 pages, 286 x 220 mm • £25.00 • ISBN 978-1-906190-37-8 • £25.00 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-25-5 • Paperback, 248 pages, 280 x 215 mm • £18.00 • ISBN 978-1-906190-46-0 GUYANA Second Edition TOBAGO Known as the land of many waters (a name given Clean, Green and Serene by the country’s first Amerindian inhabitants), Guyana is located on the north-eastern shoulder Second Edition of South America and is the continent’s only At first glance, Tobago truly is paradise on Earth, English-speaking nation. Formerly British with its long stretches of sandy beaches, calm Guiana, the country had been a colonial outpost crystal-clear waters, balmy breezes and tropical of both the Dutch and the British but is culturally sunshine. But the island has so much more to offer! more Caribbean than Latin American. With a Beneath its waters, it is surrounded by gently majority population of both African and Indian heritage, Guyanese society sloping coral reefs, plunging submarine cliffs and volcanic formations has been influenced by many other cultural traditions and customs and and the nutrient-rich seas teem with life. On land, a low-lying coralline is, today, the quintessential Caribbean nation. Guyana has a range of plateau rises gradually to a central ridge of volcanic hills and a dense ecosystems and landscapes that include vast areas of tropical rainforest, rainforest. Add to all of this the warmth and friendliness of its people, and thousands of miles of rivers, more than one hundred waterfalls, eighteen the picture is complete. Tobago: Clean, Green and Serene depicts many lakes, four mountain ranges and sprawling savannahs. It is home to more aspects of life on this idyllic Caribbean island as well as featuring the than 800 species of bird, over 200 varieties of mammal and more than 200 history, traditions and local customs that make Tobago so unique. Includes species of reptile and amphibian. Geographically, Guyana is part of the more than 130 photographic images. Guiana Shield which, together with the adjacent Amazon Basin, forms the largest equatorial forest in the world. This lavishly illustrated book provides • Hardback, 160 pages, 286 x 220 mm a spectacular and unrivalled insight into a unique Caribbean nation. • £20.00 • ISBN 978-1-906190-49-1 • Hardback, 248 pages, 286 x 220 mm JAMAICA • £25.00 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-10-1 Absolutely ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 50th Anniversary of Independence Edition Jamaican culture has touched every corner of A Little Bit of Paradise the globe. Whether it’s the pulsating rhythms of Sixth Edition Bob Marley’s reggae music, dancehall patois or Reflecting everything from the hustle and bustle the pounding footsteps of Usain Bolt, the sounds of the capital to the peace and tranquillity of the of Jamaica reverberate throughout the world. It white-sand beaches of Barbuda, Antigua and is a country with a rich history – admittedly of Barbuda: A Little Bit of Paradise is a pictorial severance and suffering – but, above all, with a insight into the everyday life of a vibrant will and capacity for survival and achievement. Jamaica is a rich diversity Caribbean nation. From the most secluded of cultures and traditions. It is rich in sounds and flavours; a feast for the palm-fringed coves and popular beaches of Antigua, to the miles of senses. Jamaica is Rasta and reggae; rum and rhythm; jerk and jazz; coffee deserted, crystal-clear surf of Barbuda, it is everything a tropical island and calypso. With more than 200 photographic images, this book looks paradise should be. And with “a beach for every day of the year”, it is no beyond the beach and gives an insight into the cultural, historical and surprise that it is one of the world’s leading tourism destinations. social aspects of Jamaica. Lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred photographic images, • Hardback, 240 pages, 286 x 220 mm Antigua and Barbuda: A Little Bit of Paradise provides a unique • £25.00 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-31-6 representation of the nation’s history, culture and its people. • Paperback, 240 pages, 286 x 220 mm • Hardback, 240 pages, 286 x 220 mm • £ 18.00 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-32-3 • £25.00 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-02-6

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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO BARBADOS Terrific and Tranquil Experience the Authentic Second Edition Caribbean Trinidad and Tobago is one of the most cosmopolitan countries in the world. Since the A trip to Barbados is an opportunity to arrival of Amerindian peoples more than ten experience the authentic Caribbean. As one of thousand years ago, this twin-island, Caribbean the world’s leading tourism destinations, many nation has become a melting pot of different visitors consider the island to be the races, traditions, customs and religions. The embodiment of the Caribbean. Its natural beauty, Amerindians, followed by European colonisers and settlers from Africa, coupled with the friendliness of its people, make it a popular choice India, China and the Middle East, have all influenced its diverse and unique throughout the year. Home to white-sand beaches, crystal-clear waters culture. Known as “the land of the hummingbird” (the name given to the and year-round sunshine, Barbados also offers unrivalled hospitality. And islands by the Amerindians) Trinidad and Tobago is the birthplace of the people of Barbados are the island’s secret ingredient; offering a calypso music and the steel drum – two of the most essential ingredients genuine warmth that lures visitors back time and time again. Lavishly in the globally-renowned Trinidad Carnival. illustrated throughout with more than 300 colour photographic images, Trinidad and Tobago: Terrific and Tranquil is a spectacular book this spectacular book evokes the spirit of the nation’s past and present, comprising more than two hundred photographic images which depict and its vision for the future. life in this diverse and vibrant nation. • Hardback, 240 pages, 286 x 220mm • Hardback, 240 pages, 286 x 220mm • £25.00 • ISBN: 1-870518-75-6 • £25.00 • ISBN: 1-870518-80-2 ANGUILLA SAINT LUCIA Tranquillity Wrapped in Blue Simply Beautiful

Second Edition With its pristine, white-sand beaches, washed Straddling the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic by crystal-clear waters, Anguilla embodies Ocean, Saint Lucia is an island distinguishable tranquillity itself. And this book provides a by its awe-inspiring Pitons. Crowned by this unique insight into one of the world’s most twin-peaked landmark , the island is covered with exclusive tourism destinations. The most a blanket of lush tropical rainforests and fringed northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Eastern with beautiful beaches. Saint Lucia is renowned Caribbean, Anguilla is just 16 miles long and three miles at its widest point. for being fought over no fewer than fourteen This definitive guide provides an insight into the nation’s history, local times by the French and the English because of its rich, natural customs and traditions, its people and places, and its successes and environment and its strategic location in the region. The island is now achievements. Includes more than 350 colour photographic images. home to a culturally diverse population whose heritage is drawn from French, English, African and East Indian cultures, as well as those of its • Hardback, 160 pages, 286 x 220mm original inhabitants, the Caribs. • £20.00 • ISBN: 1-870518-68-3 The country’s eclectic culture can also be experienced in some of the most exciting festivals in the Caribbean. These include ‘Jounen Kweyol’ INDIA (celebrating the island’s French Creole culture), the Saint Lucia Jazz A Wealth of Diversity Festival, and Carnival. With its lush rainforests, breathtaking scenery, wonderful beaches and rich cultural heritage, Saint Lucia is a simply beautiful Caribbean island. Includes over 450 photographic images. India is home to more than one billion people and more than 1,600 languages. It is the world’s • Hardback, 240 pages, 286 x 220 mm largest and most populous democracy. Its • £25.00 • ISBN 1-870518-93-4 civilisation is more than five thousand years old and in the majority of its 500,000 villages, life GRENADA has remained unchanged for hundreds of years. But it is also the place where 21st century Spice Island of the Caribbean technology and centuries-old traditions stand side-by-side. India also experiences every type of climate and landscape; from snow-capped Hansib Publishing’s fourth major book on the mountains to tropical beaches, lush rainforests to arid plains. And this nations of the Caribbean uncovers the rich and lavishly illustrated book features everything from the caste system to dramatic background to the development of cuisine; the sari to sport; music to marriage. All the states are featured in Grenada, Carriacou and Petit Martinique and its individual chapters along with chapters on the tribal peoples of India, people. Gandhi, the Nehrus and Independence. Reproducing more than two Its lively style combines historical and hundred full colour photographs, India: A Wealth of Diversity is a contemporary photographs with an authoritative text on the country’s spectacular book which celebrates the cultures, religions, customs and social and economic history. The story of Grenada’s ancestors, the timeless heritage of one of the world’s most diverse nations. language, its diverse customs, culture and traditional celebrations that retain an African connection, are all featured. • Hardback, 252 pages, 285 x 220mm £29.99 ISBN: 1-870518-61-6 This three-island nation, which supplies a third of the world’s nutmeg, is • • blessed with an abundance of natural assets to lure both nature tourist and sun-seeker. It also offers a challenging marine world for the snorkeller and scuba enthusiast. Buy now from our website www.hansibpublications.com • Hardback, 304 pages, 286 x 220 mm • £25.00 • ISBN 1-870518-29-2 Hansib books are also available from www.amazon.co.uk

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COLONIAL EMIGRATION FROM DIVIDE AND CONQUER THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY The Split in the People’s Basdeo Mangru Progressive Party of British This is an abridged version of the exhaustive 1883 Guiana and the Cold War unpublished report of George Grierson, an Indian government civil servant who conducted a Barry L. Sukhram comprehensive study of issues relating to the In 1953, the PPP government, headed by Dr export of Indian labour overseas. This primary Cheddi Jagan, was removed from office and the source, ferreted out from the Emigration Constitution suspended by Britain’s Churchill- Proceedings of the Government of India, is an led government. The PPP later split into two invaluable addition to the existing literature on the factions. Divide and Conquer seeks to explain Indian diaspora in the Caribbean. It is perhaps the definitive study of recruiting these events and explore how they affected the local struggle for self- operations in the Bengal Presidency and provides new insights into such government from the colonial power. neglected, glossed over issues as the class and character of colonial recruiters, the state of the labour market and prejudices against emigration. • Paperback, 116 pages, 216 x 138mm • £9.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-67-5 • Paperback, 140 pages, 216 x 138 mm • £9.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-88-0 POTARO DREAMS I WAS A SOLDIER My Youth in Guyana Survival Against the Odds Born in 1920, Carew’s engaging memoir takes Necola Hall the reader from his near-death experience with Jamaican-born Necola Hall served in the British malaria, into his village life, a brief turn in New Army for more than nine years and is a veteran York when his youngest sister was kidnapped, of the Second Gulf War. After twice being turned and his family’s return to . After down, her tenacity and will to succeed led to her years of recurring bouts with malaria and being acceptance into the Army. However, early forced to spend much of his time in bed, he overcomes these early years experiences, illness and the challenges of military life would take their by a thirst for reading and an alert mind that blooms with the toll. This is the story of one woman’s journey from poverty in Jamaica to encouragement of remarkable school teachers. This volume ends in 1939 the service of Queen and country. when the Second World War draws him, his best friends and fellow students into joining the British armed forces. • Paperback, 200 pages, 216 x 138mm NEW! eBook from amazon.co.uk • £11.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-89-7 • Paperback, 132 pages, 216 x 138mm • £9.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-64-4 KING SHORT SHIRT Nobody Go Run Me A.N.R. ROBINSON In the Midst of it The Life and Times of Sir MacLean Emanuel Dorbrene E. O’Marde The Autobiography of Former President & Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago This important biography of Antigua’s greatest calypsonian is also an in-depth study of the A.N.R. Robinson rose from humble origins in culture and socio-political history of Antigua Tobago to become a national, regional and and Barbuda and the wider Caribbean. The international leader. His life story has been truly traditional ‘Caribbean song’ and its creators inspirational. Nonetheless, it has not been an are treated with dignity and deep appreciation. The result is an essential easy life; he has faced his share of challenges, including some that have and long overdue addition to the study of calypso. This is a must-read been life-threatening, but he has lived with solid principles rooted in justice for calypso lovers, but there is something here for everyone – from the for all and a deep faith in humanity. He served his people with distinction, casual reader with interest in Caribbean music and culture to the never losing sight of the immense responsibility of public service. students and teachers of Caribbean sociology and cultural studies. • Paperback, 294 pages, 228 x 152 mm • Paperback, 248 pages, 216 x 138 mm • £10.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-60-6 • £11.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-71-2 EVOLUTION OF A NATION THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX Trinidad and Tobago at Fifty on Race, Faith and Life This collection of lectures, by eight of the Bishop Dr Joe Aldred nation’s leading thinkers, draws on years of A collection of articles, lectures, sermons and research, political activism and mature reflection presentations from the author’s work as a bishop since independence on 31st August 1962. in a Pentecostal church; a broadcaster; writer; Colonial rule began during the 16th century, and public speaker; and social commentator. His although Independence was an improvement on the colonial regime, many personal reflections address such themes as of the vestiges of the past have persisted. However, during the last three race, the Bible, the Black Church, politics, multiculturalism, money, destiny decades, these issues have been increasingly addressed and the nation and parenting. This diverse mix of writings reflect an eclectic life and ministry has now reached the point at which detailed information and analysis can in which a mixed-portfolio of roles has been an ever-present companion. be provided by its own national leaders of thought.

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COMMUNICATION, POWER AND VAL’S BRIDGE CHANGE IN THE CARIBBEAN Valerie Wood Paloma Mohamed The biography of a Black woman who followed her dreams from the age of six. She was aware This book argues that variations in very early on that it would take more than communicative power are directly related to determination and ambition to pursue her goals. variations in other types of power in any society. Mohamed evaluates the power of various Paperback, 112 pages, 216 x 138 mm communicative artefacts produced by various • £6.99 ISBN 978-1-906190-50-7 strata in Guyana and Trinidad. She continues by • • investigating what constitutes this power, how it is used, how it is maintained and in whose interests. KAMLA: Trinidad and Tobago’s First Woman Prime Minister • Paperback, 226 pages, 210 x 148mm • £9.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-63-7 This book chronicles the beginning of a new time in Trinidad and Tobago as the reins of BENEVOLENT NEUTRALITY national leadership are taken over by the remarkable Kamla Persad-Bissessar. This is a Indian Government Policy pictorial reflection of Kamla’s activities during and Labour Migration to the first year of her premiership. British Guiana 1854-1884 • Hardback, 240 pages, 280 x 215 mm £20.00 ISBN 978-1-906190-45-3 Basdeo Mangru • • First published in 1987, this is a detailed study of the migration of Indian labourers overseas and CARIBBEAN CHALLENGES their living and working conditions under the Sir Shridath Ramphal’s indenture system. Based largely on unpublished sources, it analyses the socio-economic, political and cultural factors which induced a traditionally Collected Counsel non-migratory people to leave their motherland for service in distant sugar “As a Community we are adrift in the Caribbean colonies. Includes a major pioneering study of Indian women migrants. Sea as if without chart or compass, making a virtue of being blown by winds of fortune – even Paperback, 270 pages, 210 x 148 mm • when they blow us apart. We blame ambition, £12.99 ISBN 978-1-906190-38-5 • • not ourselves, when we fall short of goals we set... The people of the Caribbean do care for WILLIAM CUFFAY CARICOM and all that it implies; but caring alone The Life & Times of a Chartist will not suffice to secure it if they do not ensure that their leaders act as if they do as well...” Sir Shridath Ramphal Leader Paperback, 224 pages, 228 x 152 mm Martin Hoyles • £11.99 ISBN 978-1-906190-51-4 William Cuffay was one of the leaders of Chartism, • • which was the largest political movement ever • Hardback, 224 pages, 236 x 158 mm seen in Britain. His grandfather was an African £14.99 ISBN 978-1-906190-52-1 slave and his father was a West Indian slave, from • • St Kitts, who managed to gain his freedom and settle in Chatham, Kent. In 1839, Cuffay joined CARIBBEAN PUBLISHING IN the Chartist movement and soon became well known for his oratory and BRITAIN sense of humour. In 1848, he became involved in a secret revolutionary committee which was planning an uprising in London. He was arrested, Asher & Martin Hoyles tried and convicted of levying war against the Queen. Cuffay’s reputation This book traces Caribbean publishing in Britain during the Chartist years was immense, yet he was subsequently forgotten since its earliest days in the nineteenth century. for over 130 years. This book aims to set him in his historical context and restore him to his rightful place as one of the key figures in British history. • Paperback, 164 pages, 280 x 215 mm • £9.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-42-2 • Paperback, 284 pages, 228 x 152 mm • £9.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-62-0 RUM, RIVALRY & RESISTANCE THE BELIEVERS Fighting for the Caribbean Spirit The hidden world of West Tony Talburt No other spirit beverage encapsulates the essence Indian spiritualism in New York of Caribbean social and cultural atmosphere quite Dr Glenville C. Ashby like rum. Indeed, Caribbean rum, like sugar, has helped to influence and shape many aspects of The Believers is among the first major works the region’s political, economic and social whose primary focus is the lives of Caribbean experience. While Caribbean rum is not often associated with politics, this peoples living in New York. This is a fascinating unique study shows how this popular Caribbean spirit beverage not only account of the little known and little understood has a social and cultural significance but has also been the subject of a number aspect of West Indian spiritualism. of political decisions by governments in the Caribbean, the USA and Europe.

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GROWING OUT THE GREAT MARCUS Black Hair & Black Pride in GARVEY the Swinging Sixties Liz Mackie Barbara Blake Hannah Marcus Garvey was one of the greatest Black leaders of the twentieth century. He was a man This is the autobiography of Barbara Blake of extraordinary intellectual and organisational Hannah, Britain’s first Black TV journalist. She abilities who brought millions of peoples from recalls her time in Britain during the 1960s and the African diaspora together in an attempt at how her encounters with 'Swinging London', self-liberation. As the leader of America’s first 'Flower Power', the anti-Vietnam War movement, mass political movement of Black people, Black Power and British helped develop Garvey’s achievements were both enormous in their scale and long lasting her racial consciousness from her origins as a in their effects. His ideas spread to Europe, Africa and the Caribbean – to middle-class colonial Jamaican. Socialised from birth into a negative every place where Black people lived under the imperialist system of white attitude towards her natural hair and beauty, she describes the process rule; and they too responded in their thousands to his call for a “universal of ‘growing out’ of both her hair and that Black consciousness. confraternity of the race”. There are few figures of the twentieth century who can be said to have envisaged so much, completed so little, and Paperback, 168 pages, 216 x 138 mm • inspired so many as Marcus Garvey. • £8.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-28-6 • Paperback, 160 pages, 210 x 148mm GOODBYE, MANGO SERGEANT • £9.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-05-7 Memoir of a Jamaica Trench HOW THEY MADE A MILLION Town Boy The Dyke & Dryden Story Keith Walker Tony Wade Keith Walker spent his early years in Kingston, Jamaica, where life was tough in the hot and The Dyke & Dryden story is one of unswerving dusty ghettos of Trench Town. In the mid-1960s, belief in self-worth and community pride in the Keith said goodbye to the land of his birth to struggle to overcome discrimination and join his mother in England. It was the Swinging prejudice. It is the story of the rise of Britain’s Sixties – a time of love and ‘flower power’ – but biggest Black-owned company and spells out life in London for a young Black man was cold, bleak and unfriendly, and loud and clear the dynamism of self-help, self- presented a whole new set of challenges. Nearly fifty years on, and looking reliance and just how resourcefulness can back on his life, there were times of great adventure and great danger; overcome barriers to progress. friendship and conflict; joy and sadness; and ultimate success. • Paperback, 96 pages, 210 x 148 mm • Paperback, 280 pages, 216 x 138 mm NEW! eBook from amazon.co.uk • £7.99 • ISBN 1-870518-83-7 • £8.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-39-2 VOICE OF CHANGE POWER WRITERS Selected Speeches of Jennifer AND THE STRUGGLE Smith, Premier of Bermuda AGAINST SLAVERY Edited by Walter H. Roban London’s Black History is inextricably bound For about three decades, Jennifer Smith was a up with slavery. There are stories of leading voice trumpeting the change that displacement and cruelty, of people bought and ushered in a new Bermuda in 1998. In a life sold as chattels, denied their past and any kind dominated by frontline political activism, the of future. Yet despite enormous barriers, a woman who led her party to electoral triumph number of Black writers were active, writing and to the defining transfer of power, is a writer down their horrific experiences and their and poet of note, and one of her country’s most respected painters. This ambitions for a better future for their people in the 1700s. This book book is a collection of selected speeches of an exceptional woman, whose uncovers and celebrates five African writers who came to London in the vision and involvement in her country’s politics have contributed eighteenth century. significantly to shaping twenty-first century Bermuda.

• Paperback, 64 pages, 228 x 152 mm • Hardback, 328 pages, 220 x 146 mm • £5.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-41-5 • £19.99 • ISBN 1-870518-63-2 THE WEST ON TRIAL BEACONS OF LIBERATION My Fight for Guyana’s Freedom Shango Baku Brief biographies of Black leaders who advanced Cheddi Jagan the cause of African liberty. The selection includes Dr Cheddi Jagan fought vigorously for national freedom fighters and activists from a range of independence and rights of trade unions, but the backgrounds in Africa and the Diaspora – from pernicious influence of the Cold War meant that Queen Nzinga in 16th century Angola to Queen he was undemocratically forced to spend long Mother Moore in 20th century USA. The resurrection years in political opposition. of these luminaries will serve to fill a gap in the story of emancipation from a Black perspective. • Paperback, 496 pages, 205 x 144 mm • £9.95 • ISBN 976-8163-08-9 • Paperback, 70 pages, 216 x 138mm NEW! eBook from amazon.co.uk • £6.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-17-0

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WHAT BEING BLACK IS AND A BLACK STUDIES PRIMER WHAT BEING BLACK ISN’T Heroes and Heroines of the Jacob Whittingham and Biscuit African Diaspora From Zadie Smith to Lewis Hamilton, and Tiger Keith A.P. Sandiford Woods to Kanya King, Black people are An essential text featuring over 1000 biographies succeeding in areas that the world never of historical and contemporary Black figures that expected. Yet there’s a flipside to all this: around have made a significant contribution to the 70 per cent of teenagers murdered in London development of modern civilization. This book are Black; half of all Black families are headed celebrates the impact made by Black people in by a single parent; and 12 per cent of the UK areas such as politics, engineering, agriculture, prison population is Black. This book is a bold, entertainment, literature, medicine, sport and philosophy, to name but a few. fresh and honest approach to the problems that exist inside the Black community right now. • Paperback, 512 pages, 228 x 152mm £20.00 ISBN: 978-1-906190-06-4 • Paperback, 264 pages, 228 x 152mm NEW! eBook from amazon.co.uk • • • £9.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-30-9 THE WEST INDIANS BETWEEN TWO WORLDS Portrait of a People The Story of Black British Jacques Compton Scientist Alan Goffe Soon after their arrival in the West Indies in the 15th century, the Europeans had exterminated Gaia Goffe and Judith Goffe, MD most of the indigenous peoples and had begun The moving story of a renowned medical to replace them with enslaved Africans. scientist who was tragically cut down in his Renowned Brazilian sociologist, cultural prime. Alan Goffe was born in Britain in 1920 to anthropologist and historian, Gilberto Freyre a Jamaican father and an English mother, both stated that when the Africans arrived they ceased of whom were physicians. During the 1950s and being African. Instead, they were “West Indian Blacks” who were slaves 1960s, Dr Alan Goffe was one of a group of being moulded into what the Europeans required ... labour for their microbiologists who helped develop and improve vaccines designed to plantations. This work examines Freyre’s contention and also looks at fight two of the world’s most deadly infectious diseases – polio and measles. the forces and methods used by the Europeans in what the author calls the “de-Africanisation of the Africans” and the creation of the West Indians. • Paperback, 96 pages, 228 x 152mm • £8.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-11-8 • Paperback, 184 pages, 228 x 152mm • £9.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-12-5 RASTA AND RESISTANCE BLACK ROUTES From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney Horace Campbell Legacy of African Diaspora A study of the Rastafarian Movement in all its Brian A. Belton manifestations, from its evolution in the hills of A collection of commentaries and biographies Jamaica to its present manifestations in the featuring a distinguished group of Black streets of in the , theorists, writers and influential social and the Shashamane Settlement in Ethiopia. It revolutionaries. It encompasses some well- traces the cultural, political and spiritual sources known and seminal figures from the African of this movement of resistance, highlighting the Diaspora – from both sides of the Atlantic – such quest for change among an oppressed people. as Bernie Grant, Kwame Toure, Stuart Hall, This book serves to break the intellectual traditions Gwendolyn Brooks, Ericka Huggins, Assata Shakur, Michael Akintaro, which placed the stamp of millenarianism on Rasta. Nawal al-El Saadawi, Hanan Ashrawi, Peter Mokaba and Joe Slovo.

• Paperback, 256 pages, 210 x 148mm • Paperback, 216 pages, 228 x 152mm • £12.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-00-2 • £10.99 • ISBN: 978-1-870518-92-5 THEMES IN AFRICAN-GUYANESE HISTORY BLACK IDENTITY IN THE 20th CENTURY Winston F. McGowan, James G. Rose, David A. Granger (Eds.) Expressions of the US and UK African Diaspora This book focuses on some of the major developments in the history of Edited by Mark Christian the African-Guyanese from the time of their arrival in the first half of the This collection of essays breaks new ground by examining Black identity seventeenth century, to the present day. Most on both sides of the Atlantic in relation to the African-Guyanese are descendants of enslaved African Diaspora. What is also unique is the fact Africans. These captives were not uncivilised that this volume provides a firm collaboration barbarians, as some European writers assumed between Black British and African American and asserted. Rather, they were members of scholars. Too often, Black experiences have societies which had been distinguished by been viewed in isolation from one another. Black significant achievements. They were, therefore, Identity in the 20th Century enables the reader able to make a valuable contribution to the land to compare and contrast themes relating to these to which they were taken against their will. two important locations. Paperback, 492 pages, 216 x 140mm • Paperback, 288 pages, 228 x 152mm £14.99 ISBN: 978-1-906190-18-7 • • • • £14.99 • ISBN: 1-870518-87-X

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THE IDEOLOGY OF RACISM INDIA Samuel Kennedy Yeboah Definitions and Clarifications The manifestation and symptoms of racial Reginald Massey discrimination against Black people may differ Of all the world’s major countries India is surely from one country to the other, but the author the most misunderstood and misinterpreted. demonstrates that the origin and development Since 1947, ‘India Studies’ and ‘Pakistan Studies’ of this racial problem are either identical or at have become exercises in political spin and least very similar. This in-depth analysis traces vilification. This wide-ranging book sweeps away the history and development of Western racism, several religious, cultural, social and historical the ideology which underpins it, and the power cobwebs. Fashionable correctness in all its which makes it operable. forms is firmly rejected and many received notions are proved to be patently false. • Paperback, 320 pages, 210 x 148mm £9.95 ISBN: 1-870518-07-1 • • • Paperback, 256 pages, 228 x 152mm £14.99 ISBN: 978-1-870518-72-7 THE EMPTY SLEEVE • • The Story of the West India • Hardback, 256 pages, 233 x 157mm • £30.00 • ISBN: 978-1-870518-95-6 Regiments of the British Army Brian Dyde INDIA IN THE CARIBBEAN Established in 1795 from among the slave Edited by Dr David Dabydeen & Dr population of the West Indies, the West India Brinsley Samaroo Regiments proved invaluable to the British cause First published in 1987, this collection of essays, during the Napoleonic Wars. The regiments also poems and prose is written by leading Indian- served throughout the Caribbean and in all the Caribbean authors and scholars. They reflect British West African colonies. In tracing the fascinating and often sad and upon Indian history and culture in the Caribbean disturbing history, this book also examines the way in which Black soldiers, and celebrate the significant contributions made regardless of loyalty, devotion to duty and skill at arms, were never fully by Indians to the politics, culture and economic accepted in a white man’s army. The West India Regiment was disbanded progress of the region. in 1927. Paperback, 328 pages, 210 x 148mm Paperback, 288 pages, 210 x 148mm • • £12.99 ISBN: 1-870518-00-4 • £11.95 • ISBN: 976-8163-09-7 • • LEST WE FORGET THE OTHER The Experiences of MIDDLE PASSAGE World War II West Indian Journal of a Voyage from Ex-Service Personnel Calcutta to Trinidad, 1858 Ron Ramdin Robert N Murray In the wake of the African slavers there followed The West Indian contribution during World War the ‘Coolie ships’ from India, carrying Indian II is an overlooked chapter in the history of the indentured labourers to replace African slaves Allied war effort. Little or nothing is known about on the colonial plantations in the Caribbean. With the heroics, sacrifices and the harsh treatment endured by men and women the first shipment of indentured Indians to Guyana in 1838, a new system from the Caribbean who were serving what was then ‘the Mother Country’. of slavery was introduced, and between then and 1917, more than half a This book tells their story through personal recollections, and highlights million Indians were transported to the region. This book reproduces the their contribution to that conflict, and the problems encountered after journal from one of those long and hazardous journeys, and reveals the settlement in Britain before the arrival of the Windrush. stark terror that overshadowed the entire 180-day voyage.

Paperback, 192 pages, 210 x 148mm • Paperback, 64 pages £11.95 ISBN: 1-870518-52-7 • • • • £3.95 • ISBN: 1-870518-28-4 THE AXE LAID TO THE ROOT A NEW SYSTEM OF SLAVERY The Story of Robert Wedderburn The Export of Indian Labour Overseas, 1830-1920 Martin Hoyles Hugh Tinker Robert Wedderburn was one of the key First published in 1974, this book was the first campaigners against slavery at the beginning of comprehensive historical survey of a hitherto the nineteenth century. He was born in 1762 in neglected and only partially known migration – Jamaica of a Scottish father and a Jamaican the export of Indians to supply the labour needed mother. He campaigned for equality in England and in producing plantation crops the Caribbean, freedom for the slaves in the West Indies. Much of Mauritius, South and East Africa, Sri Lanka, the Black experience in Britain, however, has been Malaya and Fiji. This followed the legal ending hidden from history. This book will help rectify the of slavery, but Professor Tinker shows how many situation in an entertaining and informative way. features the two systems had in common.

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OLIVER TAMBO SPEAKS A DREAM DEFERRED Compiled by Adelaide Tambo Guyanese Identity and the Foreword by Nelson Mandela Shadow of Colonialism This unique collection of speeches, writings and rare interviews by the President of the African Stephen Spencer National Congress, gives a coherent and This concise book examines the social, cultural comprehensive view of ANC policy, both within and political aspects of Guyana’s recent troubled South Africa and on a worldwide scale, over three history. Divisive colonialism has created a land decades. For much of this time Oliver Tambo had of contradictions; in the 1950s the promise of a been the movement’s leading spokesman. more united freedom was snatched away by Arranged chronologically, with short British colonial interests and the USA’s Cold War introductions to each chapter, the ANC’s ambitions. Yet despite the polarised ethnic and political divisions the development is traced from its origins as a protest movement in the stormy Guyanese display a remarkable ability to cross boundaries and meld 1950s, through its banning and subsequent reconstitution in exile, into the complex cultures. major, international, political organisation that it is today. • Paperback, 96 pages, 228 x 152mm • Paperback, 286 pages, 198 x 129mm • £7.99 • ISBN: 1-870518-77-2 • £7.99 • ISBN: 1-870518-94-2 THE USA IN SOUTH AMERICA NAOROJI: THE FIRST ASIAN MP and Other Essays A Biography of Dadabhai Naoroji: Cheddi Jagan India’s Patriot and Britain’s MP Edited by David Dabydeen Omar Ralph This collection of essays begins and ends with Cheddi Jagan’s revelation of political and Known as the “Grand Old Man of India”, electoral corruption in Guyana, and his moving Dadabhai Naoroji was Britain’s first Asian sense of the plight of Guyanese people under member of Parliament. This book charts his life the illegal regime of the PNC. The from humble beginnings in Bombay, to the laying maladministration and kleptomania which Dr of the foundations of modern India. Even though he was a mentor to men Jagan saw as the defining features of the PNC Government were such as Gandhi, his story is relatively unknown. compounded by Cold War politics. Paperback, 208 pages, 210 x 148mm • Paperback, 176 pages, 198 x 128mm £11.95 ISBN: 976-8163-05-4 • • • • £7.99 • ISBN: 1-870518-81-0 CRUMBLED SMALL FORBIDDEN FREEDOM The Commonwealth The Story of British Guiana Caribbean in World Politics Cheddi Jagan Sir Ronald Sanders First published in 1954, Dr Jagan’s ‘Story of This candid account of the situation of Caribbean British Guiana’ appeared in the aftermath of the small states in the global community is written military intervention that removed from office the by a former participant in many of the democratically elected government of which he deliberations of Caribbean governments. was Premier. Dr Jagan showed how this fitted in Sanders declares, “The Caribbean is in crisis.” to both the colonial policy of Britain and the ‘Cold Smallness is powerlessness, and each of these small states lacks the War’ spearheaded by the United States. It capacity to cope with the challenges that confront them. includes an analysis of “Labour and the Colonies” and shows who are the genuine and who are the false democrats. • Hardback, 264 pages, 225 x 145mm • £16.99 • ISBN: 1-870518-86-1 • Paperback, 128 pages, 197 x 129 mm • £6.00 • ISBN 1-870518-23-3 SHRIDATH RAMPHAL THE PEOPLE’S The Commonwealth and the PROGRESSIVE PARTY OF World Edited by Richard Bourne GUYANA, 1950-1992 This anthology of essays provides glimpses of a An Oral History remarkable career and has been written by Frank Birbalsingh persons who worked with Shridath Ramphal or A collection of interviews with members (and have researched his many contributions to the opponents) of the party, and with commentators Caribbean, the Commonwealth and the global who observed the party closely for a long time. community, and to internationalism. For an Interviewees include founding party members unequalled stint of 15 years (from 1975 to 1990), he was Secretary-General such as Dr Cheddi Jagan and his wife, Janet, of the Commonwealth of Nations. He spent much of his last five years as Ashton Chase, Eusi Kwayana, Martin Carter, Eric Huntley, and Secretary-General in the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa and had commentators from the wider Caribbean such as Richard Hart, Lloyd Best, the satisfaction of playing a part in Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. George Lamming and George Belle. Hardback, 248 pages, 236 x 157mm • Paperback, 208 pages, 228 x 152mm £16.99 ISBN: 978-1-906190-20-0 • • • • £10.99 • ISBN: 978-1-870518-91-8

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CHEDDI JAGAN: SELECTED PROSPERO’S RETURN SPEECHES 1992-1994 Historical Essays on Race, Edited by David Dabydeen Culture and British Society A collection of speeches made between 1992 and Paul B Rich 1994 by Guyana’s President Cheddi Jagan. They This wide-ranging collection of essays explores testify to his integrity of vision and his eloquent the nature and meaning of race and racism in concern for the potential as well as the plight of British society and the nature of British and the Guyanese people. The crippling burden of English national identity. Using political, social foreign debt and its disturbing impact on human and cultural sources, the author shows that development is highlighted as are problems many of the contemporary issues surrounding the position of Black faced by the country after 28 years of rule by the People’s National Congress. minorities in British society have a long and complex history. Areas as diverse as anthropology, eugenics, literary history and housing are Paperback, 148 pages, 210 x 148mm • discussed. In its rich employment of historical sources, the book shows £6.95 ISBN: 1-870518-49-7 • • the powerful strains of racial and national political thought in Britain. At the same time, it reveals the existence of an alternative liberal and radical SPEECHES BY ERROL tradition which can be drawn upon in the construction of alternative models BARROW of national identity which include rather than marginalise minorities. Edited by Yussuff Haniff • Paperback, 216 pages, 210 x 148mm Errol Barrow was among the dominant figures • £8.95 • ISBN: 1-870518-40-3 in the political life of Barbados for more than two decades. His contribution to the economic THE STATE OF development of Barbados has never been in doubt, acknowledged even by his critics. He re- BLACK BRITAIN, Vol. 1 shaped the economic relationships among the Dr Aaron Haynes English-speaking Caribbean countries by leading the formation, first, of The street disturbances of 1981 heightened the the Caribbean Free Trade Area (CARIFTA) and, later, the much broader public debate on race relations throughout Britain, Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM). Errol Barrow but the resulting tendency was to concentrate on preached a gospel of economic self-reliance for the English Caribbean, treating the symptoms rather than the causes. and self-respect for the Black man in Barbados and beyond. Covering a range of subjects including education, housing and social services, this book gives a concise review of the issues underlying the development Paperback, 200 pages, 210 x 148mm • of the plight of Black people in Britain. • £12.99 • ISBN: 1-870518-70-5 • Paperback, 210 x 148mm SHOULDERING ANTIGUA • £8.95 • ISBN: 976-8163-01-1 AND BARBUDA THE STATE OF The Life of V.C. Bird Paget Henry BLACK BRITAIN, Vol. 2 As its charismatic labour leader, its first Chief Dr Aaron Haynes Minister, its first Premier and first Prime Minister, This second volume examines the absence of V.C. Bird dominated the political life of Antigua policies directed at the needs of the Black and Barbuda for the 55 years between 1939 and communities, and argues that the Thatcher 1994. This biography begins with a close look at revolution, with its emphasis on individualism the path of Bird’s development as a man and as a politician. It examines and its rejection of community, did not only affect white society, but had a the major achievements and failures of Bird’s rule, the contours that these traumatic affect on the development of Britain’s multi-coloured society. It positives and negatives outlined, and the indelible traces they have left concludes with a Black agenda for the year 2000. on the path of Antiguan and Barbudan history. V.C. Bird’s achievements included political independence for Antigua and Barbuda from Britain. • Paperback, 210 x 148mm • £8.95 • ISBN: 976-8163-04-6 • Paperback, 248 pages, 228 x 152mm • £11.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-34-7 THE UNDIMINISHED LINK ANTIGUA VISION: CARIBBEAN REALITY Forty Years and Beyond Perspectives of Prime Minister Lester Bryant Bird Victor Waldron An account of a village boy who took the giant Introduced and edited by Sir Ronald Michael Sanders step of moving to London from his home in Lester Bird held office consistently for over a British Guiana. Arriving in 1959, the sudden quarter of a century. Consequently, he has been culture shock brought many complications – in the forefront of decision-making in the region long winter months, warm clothing and the as an entire generation of West Indians grew to difficulty of obtaining accommodation. It was a maturity. The statements included in this book time of working with people who resented the cover a range of topics, each of them crucial to arrival of immigrants and having to contend with the Caribbean’s economic, social and political bigotry. This book tells of the struggle for survival and the desire to development. succeed and of shattered dreams and aspirations that were never accomplished. • Hardback, 324 pages, 220 x 142mm • £14.99 • ISBN: 1-870518-59-4 • Paperback, 128 pages, 216 x 138mm • £8.99 • ISBN: 1-870518-82-9

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DYSLEXIA FROM A WAKE PEOPLE WAKE CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE The Sacred and the Profane Asher & Martin Hoyles Rawle Winston Titus There is widespread ignorance about dyslexia Wake People Wake is a socio-anthropological and the consequences can be devastating. Of study of the wake and waking habits that early the seven hundred books on dyslexia in the Tobago folk practiced during their funerary rites. British Library, not one is written by a Black The study not only deals with these people and author and none deals with the issue of race and their rituals, it also presents a perspective of the culture. How is dyslexia viewed in the Black way other tribes and early peoples worldwide communities? What needs to be done to raise dealt with death and the hereafter. It also awareness? How can dyslexics themselves provides an insight into the way superstition and become more conscious and confident? This book makes a start by looking the supernatural constantly played a part in these customs. at statistics and famous dyslexics, the historical background and theoretical framework, and examples of what dyslexics experience. It also • Paperback, 240 pages, 228 x 152mm includes interviews with dyslexics such as Benjamin Zephaniah. • £14.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-04-0 • Paperback, 200 pages, 228 x 152mm • Hardback, 240 pages, 232 x 156mm • £12.99 • ISBN: 1-870518-89-6 • £20.00 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-08-8 REMEMBER ME BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WEST Achievements of Mixed Race INDIAN CHURCH HISTORY People, Past and Present Compiled by Rev. Arthur Dayfoot and Rev. Roscoe Pierson Asher & Martin Hoyles This book offers a comprehensive annotated A collection of biographies of mixed-race figures guide to books and other source materials for from past and present. Historical biographies the study of Christianity in the English-speaking include Bob Marley, Mary Seacole and Fredrick Caribbean. It also includes many similar items Douglass, and contemporary figures include relating to neighbouring territories – Spanish, Shirley Bassey, former MP Oona King and Cathy Dutch and French – and to other religious bodies Tyson. A detailed introduction deals with key issues relating to this in the Caribbean area. important subject. There is a select bibliography of books dealing with mixed race and of children’s books containing mixed-race characters. • Paperback, 424 pages, 228 x 152mm £14.99 ISBN: 1-870518-74-8 • Paperback, 128 pages, 228 x 152mm • • £8.99 ISBN: 1-870518-62-4 • • • Hardback, 424 pages, 238 x 160mm • £20.00 • ISBN: 1-870518-99-3 THE MODERN BOOK OF MUSLIM NAMES ONE PEOPLE MAYOR

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THE NORMAN MANLEY INDIAN-CARIBBEAN TEST MEMORIAL LECTURES, CRICKETERS AND THE 1984-1995 QUEST FOR IDENTITY

A collection of lectures honouring the memory of Frank Birbalsingh Norman Manley, who served as Jamaica’s Chief If West Indies Test cricket betrays divisive values Minister from 1955 to 1959 and Premier from 1959 of race, class and colour inherited from a colonial to 1962. Popularly known as the father of modern history of plantation slavery and indenture, it also Jamaica, he devoted his life to the liberation of reflects a paradoxical power of resistance to this people wherever his influence could be felt. colonial legacy. This book considers cricket’s capacity, at least, in reducing, if not transcending, • Paperback, 96 pages, 210 x 148mm division through its focus on collective team • £6.99 • ISBN: 936-8163-00-3 activity in the quest for identity. It is enriched by anecdote and incident from Test players or commentators, both from home and abroad. The FROM WHERE I STAND careers of all thirty-three Indian-Caribbean Test cricketers who represented West Indies are chronicled up to the end of 2013. Roy Sawh Published in 1987, this part biography part social • Paperback, 250 pages, 216 x 138 mm commentary contains all the elements of the life • £11.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-74-3 story of any West Indian in Britain. They came with dreams and expectations of being treated THEY GAVE THE CROWD as full citizens of their ‘Motherland’ – a country for which they had fought in the Second World PLENTY FUN War. But they were quickly disillusioned and shocked by racist rejection West Indian Cricket and its and cruelty. Roy Sawh – civil rights activist and public speaker – looks back over three decades in Britain since his arrival in the 1950s. Relationship with the British- Resident Caribbean Diaspora • Paperback, 96 pages, 198 x 128mm • £5.95 Colin Babb In 1948, the Empire Windrush ship sailed from Jamaica with more than PRIDE OF BLACK 400 Caribbean migrants seeking to create a new future in Britain. Two years later, the West Indies cricket team beat England for the first time BRITISH WOMEN on English soil at Lord’s. For some Caribbean migrants, West Indian Deborah King victories provided a source of self-esteem. Colin Babb reflects on events A collection of profiles featuring some of which influenced the development of the social impact of cricket on Britain’s successful Black women of the 1990s, British Caribbean communities from the arrival of the Windrush onwards. including the singer, Sade, Baroness Shreela Flather and Jacqui Harper. • Paperback, 108 pages, 228 x 152 mm • £8.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-55-2 • Paperback, 80 pages, 240 x 162mm • £5.95 • ISBN: 1-870518-34-9 FROM RANJI TO ROHAN Cricket and Indian Identity in HANSIB PUBLICATIONS Colonial Guyana 1890s-1960s Clem Seecharan Hansib Publications was founded in 1970 by Guyana-born . The following year, the company launched its first title, This book explores the role of cricket in the monthly magazine, West Indian Digest. shaping Indo-Guyanese identity, from the example set by Prince ‘Ranji’ Ranjitsinhji, Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hansib broadened its through the seminal achievement of cricketers such as J.A. Veerasawmy publishing activities to include newspapers, magazines and and Chatterpaul ‘Doosha’ Persaud, to the craftsmanship of Joe Solomon books for Britain’s Caribbean, Asian and African communities. and the mercurial genius of Rohan Kanhai. This is framed by the These titles included the weekly newspapers West Indian complex socio-cultural milieu of colonial Guyana. World, Caribbean Times, Asian Times and African Times. In 1997, after twenty-four years of publishing newspapers • Paperback, 312 pages, 228 x 152mm for Britain’s ‘visible minority’ communities, Hansib Publications • £12.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-27-9 sold its weekly titles and concluded its involvement in newspaper publishing. THE RISE OF WEST INDIAN CRICKET Since the beginning of the 1980s, Hansib has published From Colony to Nation more than two hundred books and specialist titles. With over forty years’ experience in multicultural publishing, Hansib Frank Birbalsingh Publications is widely acknowledged as having established This essential book recalls the events, issues, visible minority publishing in the United Kingdom. attitudes and personalities that were central to Of the company’s book publishing ethos, former the evolution of West Indian cricket. Historical Commonwealth Secretary-General, Sir Shridath Ramphal reflection is combined with cricket reminiscence said, “Hansib’s catalogue speaks eloquently of the range and from the 1920s to the 1960s, the most critical quality of its publications, many of which would never have years. made it to the bookshelves but for Arif’s willingness, indeed Paperback, 288 pages, 210 x 148mm wilfulness, in taking commercial risks to make this happen.” • • £12.95 • ISBN: 1-870518-47-0

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MOTHER COUNTRY SUGAR’S SWEET ALLURE In the wake of a dream Khalil Rahman Ali It is 1843, and Mustafa Ali, an eighteen year-old Muslim Indian labourer from a village near Summer 1947. A Jamaican ex-serviceman faces Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, is forced to run a tirade of abuse from the British Union of away through the discovery of his forbidden love Fascists. It is a shocking contrast to the for Chandini Sharma, his Hindu childhood treatment he received three years earlier when sweetheart. His dream was to find work, save grateful Britons welcomed the ‘loyal colonials’ his money and return to ask for his beloved’s who had come to help fight Nazi tyranny. Many hand. This dream took him further afield into the West Indians also answered the call to rebuild promise of good work, pay and conditions as an the ‘Mother Country’. For many, the dream of a indentured labourer on one of the sugar better life was tainted with discrimination and hostility. The characters in plantations, thousands of miles away in the colony of British Guiana on Mother Country are fictional, but their stories are set against the backdrop the mainland of South America. His experiences on the Grand Trunk Road of actual events that took place from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. across Uttar Pradesh to Bengal, and on the treacherous sea voyage from Calcutta to Georgetown, tested his resolve to the limit. • Paperback, 430 pages, 216 x 138mm • £11.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-68-2 • Paperback, 312 pages, 216 x 138mm NEW! eBook from amazon.co.uk • £11.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-66-8 DEAR INFIDEL E-KIDZ Tamim Sadikali Mission to Cyberspace Two families reunite for a feast on Eid ul-Fitr, and boys who grew up together will meet again... Alan Springer as men. They arrive intent on embracing the day In a puff of smoke and a flash of light, a genie and old enmities are put aside. This is a story appears from the computer to whisk the e-Kidz about love, hate, longing and sexual dysfunction, off to cyberspace. The genie gives them a all sifted through the fallout from the war on dangerous mission: Clean up the internet. The terror, and how we drift from each other. e-Kids head off on a thrilling surf-ride across the super-highway where they will encounter bugs • Paperback, 200 pages, 216 x 138mm NEW! eBook from amazon.co.uk and cookies, evil pop-ups, chat-room predators • £10.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-70-5 and viruses, each in the form of fearsome monsters and super-villains. Their journey takes them across the matrix to the centre of the World Wide Web where they must face the evil web- SEND OUT YOU HAND master in a final showdown. Dorbrene O’Marde Aimed at the 10 – 14 age-group, eKidz: Mission to Cyberspace tackles the A story that follows the intersecting lives of global concern of internet safety in an exciting and intriguing way. business men and women, socio-political activists and academics as they attempt to chart • Paperback, 160 pages, 216 x 138mm NEW! eBook from amazon.co.uk a new course towards Caribbean regional unity. £11.99 ISBN: 978-1-906190-69-9 The failed West Indies Federation (1958-1962) • • provides the political background and the less- than-successful present efforts of politicians at PARDNER MONEY STORIES regional integration provide impetus for creative Deanne Heron thinking, new approaches and new cultural This collection of short stories takes a possibilities. The man-woman relationships are examined around issues whimsical look at life within an extended Black of love, sex, fidelity, health, race and relocation. The action takes place across Jamaican family in Britain. Written in English six Caribbean countries. There is humour and music and cricket and food! with Jamaican patois dialogue, the stories capture the unique sense of humour of Black Paperback, 270 pages, 216 x 138mm • people in situations which wouldn’t ordinarily £9.99 ISBN: 978-1-906190-56-9 • • be considered humorous. Subjects as diverse as funerals and family holidays are featured THE BOY FROM and take a look at the interactions between WILLOW BEND various generations.

Joanne C. Hillhouse • Paperback, 144 pages, 210 x 148 mm NEW! eBook from amazon.co.uk • £6.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-40-8 Vere’s irrepressible spirit is an asset as he comes of age in Antigua. His is a hard knocks existence PARDNER MONEY STORIES marked by poverty and loss. The women in his life – his absent mother, longsuffering Tanty, Volume Two rebellious June and first love Makeba – help Deanne Heron shape him; so, too, his abrasive grandfather and others in his environment. In the end, though, it This second volume of Pardner Money Stories is a story about a boy, trying to hold on to what’s real and precious to him, is a follow-up to the first volume of hilarious trying to find his way in the world, and learning to be a man. This engaging short stories which featured Kelly and her tale speaks particularly to young readers, while sparking nostalgia in older eccentric Jamaican family living in the north of Caribbean readers as well. England. It is a little piece of Jamaica in England!

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CROSSBONES THE BALGOBIN SAGA and Other Stories Written and Compiled by Petamber Persaud Willi Chen Balgobin is an elusive and often overlooked This collection of short stories, from Trinidad’s character in Indian-Guyanese folklore. The versatile and ebullient Willi Chen, features the mystery that surrounds him is curious given that wide variety of ordinary folk of the island. There his story has been in existence since the first are farmers, shopkeepers, thieves, drug-dealers, arrival of Indians into Guyana in 1838. Frequently migrants from other islands and far-off places, portrayed as an unintelligent schoolboy, people on the move, and people looking for a Balgobin confounds his educators by scraping place and a life. It is a stark and elemental world: through every test and every challenge. To his brute force versus human enterprise; cruelty classmates, however, he is often the hero of the pausing before sheer beauty; jumbie birds, snakes, howler monkeys and day. This book provides a re-introduction to a lovable character and reflects thunderous storms. Willi Chen reflects the magical realism and exuberance the lives of Indian immigrants in the first half of the 19th century. of the language of the Caribbean. His characters are alive and memorable and record the very essence of real life in Trinidad and Tobago. • Paperback, 40 pages, 216 x 138mm £3.99 ISBN: 978-1-906190-21-7 • Paperback, 176 pages, 216 x 138mm • • £7.99 ISBN: 978-1-906190-26-2 • • A TROUBLED DREAM SHORT AND SWEET Jacques Compton A Collection of Guyanese In the years after the Second World War, many West Indians came to live and work in Britain Stories and Fables following the recruitment drives of such institutions as London Transport and the Robert J. Fernandes National Health Service. Many had also served This collection of short stories and fables in the British Armed Forces during the war and chronicles a way of life that is unmistakably decided to make Britain their new home. These Guyanese. Robert Fernandes is a well-known new arrivals sought a life of prosperity in the Guyanese adventurer and nature photographer “mother country”, but in reality they were often faced with a hostile and and many of the stories were taken from his life unwelcoming environment. This is the story of a young couple whose experiences. They provide fascinating snapshots lives reflect the continuing dilemmas faced by West Indians in British of the Guyanese way of life and include a diverse range of characters: society, while at the same time having to address the conflicts between from lost tribes to porknocker wives; from Leroy the laxative man to Ma the older and younger generations. Bancroft the gun-toting old lady. Fernandes breathes life into the ever- changing backdrop of his often humorous and always poignant stories. • Paperback, 140 pages, 228 x 152mm • £8.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-13-2 • Paperback, 152 pages, 216 x 138mm • £7.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-19-4 BILLINGSLY SINGLEHOLIC The Bear with the Crinkled Ear Katherine Bing E.R. Braithwaite (author of To Sir, With Love) Mixed race 30-year-old Sarah is dumped by her “Oh Billingsly!” Lisbeth cried, “ I love you just the Muslim boyfriend and finds herself single once way you are and I love your ear just the way it is.” again. Fed up with being alone, she gives herself “That’s fine,” said Billingsly, “so I’ll tell you a one year to find a man. With the help of friends secret. It’s only for you. My left ear is for hearing Georgina, the happily married blonde, and things, all sorts of things. They’re just sounds Jacquie, the single Black diva, ‘singleholic’ Sarah and are not important to me. But my right ear is learns to alter her game with hilarious for listening. It will open only when someone speaks directly to me, the consequences. Singleholic is a hilarious ‘Sex & way you did. When you’re not talking to me it will curl up again.” the City’ adventure which introduces multiculturalism to chick-lit. Until now, the appeal of multicultural London • Paperback, 64 pages, 198 x 129mm has been confined to literary novels like White Teeth. In the spirit of Bridget £5.99 ISBN: 978-1-906190-23-1 Jones, Singleholic tracks Sarah’s search for a husband, but Sarah is mixed- • • race and she is a professional success. THE OPEN PRISON • Paperback, 296 pages, 198 x 129mm Angus Richmond £7.99 ISBN: 978-1-906190-15-6 • • Angela is a sensitive and disturbed child, growing up on the estate of her white guardian KING OF THE CARNIVAL in British Guiana. She is slowly and painfully and Other Stories awakened to a society in turmoil, in which both Black and white are struggling to reassert their Willi Chen roles during the period of economic instability A unique collection of short stories from the prior to the First World War. As the child of a Caribbean, capturing the violence, trickery, loveless union between Black and white, the pathos and racial comedy of Trinidadian society. situation is even more problematic. Only after a desperate early marriage generates a series of tragic events, does Angela • Paperback, 160 pages, 196 x 122mm learn to understand the ultimate possibilities of her own displaced identity. • £7.99 • ISBN: 1-870518-12-8 • Paperback, 232 pages, 210 x 148mm • £4.95 • ISBN: 1-870518-25-X

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WRITE BLACK, A READER’S GUIDE TO WRITE BRITISH WEST INDIAN AND BLACK From Post Colonial to BRITISH LITERATURE Black British Literature David Dabydeen and Nana Wilson-Tagoe Edited by Kadija Sesay An introduction to West Indian and Black British literature which outlines its history and This book examines the new Black British development and highlights the major themes writers in Britain, born in Britain, writing about and suggested texts for further reading. Britain from a specific British perspective. This collection of essays puts the work of British- Paperback, 192 pages, 190 x 128mm born writers of African and Caribbean parentage, who published first • £8.95 ISBN: 1-870518-42-X collections in the late eighties and nineties, under a magnifying glass. • • Themes of alienation, belonging, gender politics, identity, language, madness, and race reverberate yet with a peculiar variance than that of PASSION & EXILE post colonial writers. Included are essays on Diran Adebayo, Patience Agbabi, Jackie Kay, Andrea Levy, Leone Ross, Dorothea Smartt, Zadie Essays in Caribbean Literature Smith and Benjamin Zephaniah. This book provides a rare opportunity Frank Birbalsingh to broaden the scope of a much overlooked area of British literature. This wide-ranging collection of essays offers an • Paperback, 384 pages, 228 x 152mm illuminating commentary on the literary and £14.99 ISBN: 1-870518-06-3 social history of the English-speaking • • Caribbean. The themes of race, colour, exile and displacement are explored with precision, and IRA ALDRIDGE interviews with the authors yield unusual insights into the making of Caribbean literature. Celebrated 19th Century Actor Martin Hoyles • Paperback, 192 pages, 210 x 148 mm £7.95 ISBN 1-870518-16-0 Ira Aldridge was one of the most celebrated • • actors of the nineteenth century. He performed in all the major towns in the UK and Ireland, won THE WEB OF TRADITION international fame when he toured Europe and Uses of Allusion in V.S. was idolised in Russia. He was most famous for his portrayal of Othello, but he also acted in Naipaul’s Fiction many other roles in a career spanning more than John Thieme forty years. A comprehensive study of the fiction of V.S. • Paperback, 104 pages, 226 x 138mm Naipaul including The Mystic Masseur, A House £8.99 ISBN: 978-1-906190-03-3 for Mr Biswas and A Bend in the River. As well • • as providing a natural introduction to Naipaul’s fiction, it attempts to locate the precise nature A HISTORY OF THEATRE of the tradition to which Naipaul belongs through an examination of his use of literary and cultural allusion. It considers the part played in his IN GUYANA, 1800-2000 fiction by such diverse influences as Hindu myth, classical and imperialistic Frank Thomasson writings, calypso and Hollywood cinema. This study of 200 years of theatre in Guyana Paperback, 224 pages, 198 x 128 mm is a fascinating work which includes a • £6.95 ISBN 1-870518-30-6 compilation of related articles extracted from • • local journals dating back to the early 19th century. It establishes itself as a pioneering MOVING VOICES and indispensable segment in the history of Guyana and encompasses the performing arts Black Performance Poetry which the different ethnic groups brought Asher & Martin Hoyles with them. This book traces the African oral tradition • Paperback, 528 pages, 228 x 152mm through African American and Caribbean culture, £18.99 ISBN: 978-1-906190-07-1 to Black performance poetry in England, and • • examines the many factors which have shaped this oral poetry. Twelve contemporary poets AN INTRODUCTION TO discuss their life experiences and how they became poets. Poets include: Valerie Bloom, THEATRE ARTS Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze and Benjamin Zephaniah. Includes CD. Jacques Compton Paperback + CD, 232 pages, 228 x 152mm Drama in schools is growing in popularity in the • £16.99 ISBN: 1-870518-64-0 Commonwealth Caribbean and this essential • • resource book will introduce teachers to various aspects of Theatre Arts. It will also be useful to amateur theatre groups. Buy now from our website • Paperback, 80 pages, 228 x 152mm www.hansibpublications.com • £8.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-14-9 Hansib books are also available from www.amazon.co.uk

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UNDER BASIL LEAVES COOLIE ODYSSEY An Anthology of Poems David Dabydeen Paulette A. Ramsay Dabydeen’s second collection of poems probes the experience of diaspora, the journeying of In this debut collection, Paulette Ramsay peasant labourers from India to the Caribbean addresses the "unsanctioned" layers of then to Britain, dwelling on the dream of experience that are often hidden behind social romance, the impotence of racial encounter and codes and cloaks of respectability. Their layered the metamorphosis of language. wit is one of the most engaging features of these poems that range over diverse subjects Paperback, 56 pages, 198 x 129mm – childhood memories, politics, religion, • £5.99 ISBN: 1-870518-69-1 women's concerns, life and death, "man and • • woman story". Ramsay's ironic, often hilarious vision illuminates everyday relationships and experiences from fresh perspectives that SIGNATURE CULTURES will delight her readers. Readers will equally enjoy the range of voices, from folk to polemic, that add drama to much of the collection. Poems that awaken consciousness • Paperback, 130 pages, 198 x 128 mm • £7.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-36-1 Matahari V. Poetry arising from the depths of one’s personal experiences and personal living of OCTOBER AFTERNOON life, allows us the luxury of revealing things Paulette A. Ramsay that normally we would not share – just like a painting shows not just a scene, but also the A collection of carefully crafted, layered, rich, emotions the painter contains within him/ subtle and resonant poems which are fanciful, herself. These poems give us a glimpse into teasing and simultaneously sombre. the anguish and questioning of a soul that feels life crowding in and equally feels the need to be true to herself. Joseph Philip Pinto CFC, Paperback, 88 pages, 198 x 128 mm • Rome, Italy • £7.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-48-4 • Paperback, 88 pages, 216 x 138 mm REFLECTIONS • £7.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-61-3 Pamela Ali Pamela was born and grew up in London in the MEENACHI 1940s and 50s. She left school in her early teens Fourth Volume of New Poems and would be the first to admit that life within the education system was an unhappy affair. Rajandaye Ramkissoon-Chen However, since her late teenage years she felt This collection probes the experiences of compelled to express herself in verse and prose. immigrants from India to Trinidad. This collection reflects upon issues as diverse as world affairs, Mother Nature and relationships • Paperback, 120 pages, 198 x 129mm with close members of her family. • £6.99 • ISBN: 978-1-870518-79-6 • Paperback, 60 pages, 216 x 138mm • £5.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-43-9

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CLASSIC CARIBBEAN STORIES AND RECIPES COOKING FROM THE EGG LADY Sharon Atkin Carolyn Ali Classic Caribbean Cooking is a celebration of On the pages of this unique and colourful book, the ingenuity and creativity of the people of the each beautifully crafted story comes to life with Caribbean. From the region’s first inhabitants – the its own lyrical original art-work. Although written Amerindians – to the European, African, Asian in a light vein, the stories carry a subtle yet and Middle Eastern settlers, their influence over profound message, making it a book that can be the centuries has created a unique cuisine that enjoyed by all. The diverse story-scape includes owes as much to other parts of the world as it legends, folklore, fairy tales, mystery and travelogue. At the end of each does to the Caribbean. story, like a delightful dessert, the reader is presented with several deliciously different recipes. With more than 300 historical and contemporary recipes, gathered from throughout the region, this book provides clear and easy-to-follow Paperback, 88 pages, 280 x 215 mm instructions to such culinary delights as Pepperpot, Ackee and Saltfish, • £11.99 ISBN 978-1-906190-35-4 Mauby, Run Down, Breadfruit Porridge, Rice and Peas, Mettai, Fried Flying • • Fish, Roti, and Jerk Pork to name but a few. www.hansibpublications.com Paperback, 360 pages, 228 x 152mm • Hansib books are also available from www.amazon.co.uk • £12.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-16-3

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BLACK DEATHS IN POLICE BARRISTER FOR CUSTODY AND HUMAN RIGHTS THE DEFENCE The Failure of the Stephen Trial by Jury and Lawrence Inquiry How to Survive it David Mayberry Rudy Narayan This book provides an insight into one of the This book is for those who wish to look behind most disturbing and under-reported issues to the mystique of wig and gown to gain a better affect ethnic minorities in the UK. Through an understanding of the role and function of assessment of diversity literature and Barristers for the Defence. Described by Lord interviews with police officers, it highlights the Scarman as, “... one of the finest cross- limited commitment to fulfilling McPherson’s recommendations and the examiners and advocates in the Commonwealth,” Rudy Narayan was value of diversity training to operational policing. Against the backdrop Britain’s most renowned civil rights lawyer. Includes excerpts of of Black deaths in police custody, the book questions the extent to Narayan’s cross-examinations during the Scarman Enquiry into the which ‘institutionalised racism’ has been genuinely challenged. In Riots in 1981. October 2007, the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) became operational. This development will place a growing emphasis • Paperback, 208 pages, 196 x 128mm on public bodies, such as the police, to meet their obligations as laid • £6.95 • ISBN: 0950666424 out in the Human Rights Act (1998). By drawing attention to a tragic and little-known problem, this book attempts to offer a genuine agenda THE 11-STEP GUIDE for change. TO THE 11+ MAZE • Paperback, 84 pages, 228 x 152mm Aylia Fox £8.99 ISBN: 978-1-906190-09-5 • • The 11-Step Guide to the 11+ Maze contains everything a parent needs to know if they’re CORRUPTION considering putting their child though the 11+.

Law, Governance and Ethics It is an authoritative, information-packed manual in the Commonwealth Caribbean which takes you through the complicated twists and turns of the exam maze process in 11 easy- Derrick V. McKoy to-follow steps. It tells you what to do, when to This book explains why it is important to study do it, how to do it and perhaps more importantly, how to survive it in a anticorruption regimes and sets out the existing straight talking, practical and supportive way. Helpfully, it also tells you state of knowledge on the subject. The author things the education authorities would rather you didn’t know. Written by explores why corruption exists, how a parent who went through it herself, the Guide draws heavily on a wealth governments are addressing the problem and of first hand experiences, wry observations and anecdotes. It’s funny; it’s includes the emerging law on the subject, touching and, at times, a teeny-bit terrifying! With contributions from three including the law on bribery, misconduct in public office, the tort of respected London head teachers, the Guide is penned with the particular misfeasance in public office, judicial misconduct and contemporary needs of parents in south-east London, Bexley, Kent and Bromley in mind. anticorruption legislation. Special consideration is given to the role of the constitutions when examining questions of the corruption of public • Paperback, 122 pages, 210 x 148 mm officials. • £9.99 • ISBN 978-1-906190-54-4 • Paperback, 288 pages, 288 x 152 mm CITIES FOR THE FUTURE £15.99 ISBN 978-1-906190-44-6 • • Keith Vaz (Ed.) TRIUMPH FOR UNCLOS Preface by Tony Blair, Prime Minister The central theme of this book is urban The Guyana-Suriname regeneration. However, the authors cover a wide Maritime Arbitration range of topics – from crime to cuisine. This is only to be expected because urban regeneration A Compilation & Commentary embraces, and must reflect, every aspect of life and has many interpretations and nuances. All Shridath Ramphal the contributors experience contemporary urban The maritime dispute between Guyana and life and therefore share an interest in maintaining Suriname – neighbours on the South American and enhancing our urban environment. Contributors include Lord Foster, coast – which came to a head with the resort to Neil Kinnock, Sir Terence Conran, Lord Falconer, Jenni Murray, Linford force by Suriname in 2000, threatened not only relations between the two Christie and Lord Puttnam. countries but also the peace and stability of the wider maritime area of the Caribbean. It specifically endangered the ‘equitable and efficient’ • Hardback, 164 pages, 233 x 154 mm utilisation of the resources of the Guyana-Suriname marine basin. That £12.99 dispute was settled by Arbitration under UNCLOS – the United Nations • Convention on the Law of the Sea – after a three-year legal process. This book tells the story of that dispute between Britain and Holland as the metropoles of Guyana and Suriname, and then between the neighbours Submit your manuscript for consideration themselves as they became independent. It explains the process of peaceful settlement in 2007 through arbitration, and of the triumph of • Novel • Short stories • Poetry • Thesis • Biography, etc UNCLOS in enabling it. Hansib Publications Limited • Hardback, 360 pages, 236 x 158mm Email: [email protected] • £16.99 • ISBN: 978-1-906190-24-8

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