Margaret Busby

Standard Name: Busby, Margaret

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Malorie Blackman
MB also contributed to Margaret Busby 's anthology New Daughters of Africa, 2019.
Busby, Margaret. “From Ayòbámi Adébáyò to Zadie Smith: meet the New Daughters of Africa”. theguardian.com, 9 Mar. 2019.
Anthologization Jackie Kay
JK 's first story, entitled Blacker and Blacker, featured a black girl trying to scrub herself white. Her brother felt it was all right as a story only if it was not about herself....
Publishing Buchi Emecheta
When she submitted it to her publishers, they found it unintelligible and rejected it. Other publishers then rejected it because her previous publisher had done so.At the same time she heard that her first book...
Publishing Buchi Emecheta
She dedicated this book to her publisher, Margaret Busby , who had been very supportive of it despite Clive Allison 's procrastinations and George Braziller 's initial rejection. Allison was angry that she had sent...
Textual Production Maud Sulter
MS 's poems, fictional works, and essays have appeared in anthologies including Through the Break (1986, edited by Pearlie McNeill and others), Lauretta Ngcobo 's Let It Be Told (1987), Dancing the Tightrope (1987, a...

Timeline

1969: Publishing firm Allison and Busby was launched....

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1969

Publishing firm Allison and Busby was launched. Its co-founder, Ghana-born Margaret Busby (later successful as a writer), thus became the UK's youngest woman publisher and first black publisher.
“Margaret Busby”. African Writers Abroad (AWA).

15 October 1992: Margaret Busby published her ground-breaking...

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15 October 1992

Margaret Busby published her ground-breaking collection Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present. She followed it in March 2019...

1998: Rosemarie Hudson (who came to Britain from...

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1998

Rosemarie Hudson (who came to Britain from Jamaica in the 1960s at the age of twelve) founded the firm of Black/Amber, BlackAmber or Black Amber , which publishes books by black and Asian writers in Britain.
BlackAmber Books. http://www.blackamber.com/general/about.htm.

Before mid-September 2004: Melanie Abrahams of literary agency Renaissance...

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Before mid-September 2004

Melanie Abrahams of literary agency Renaissance One organised a group photo of people of Afro, Caribbean, or Asian origin who make a significant contribution to contemporary British literature.
Levy, Andrea. “Made in Britain”. The Guardian, 18 Sept. 2004, pp. Review 34 - 5.
Review 34-5

Texts

Busby, Margaret. “Buchi Emecheta obituary”. theguardian.com.
Busby, Margaret. “From Ayòbámi Adébáyò to Zadie Smith: meet the New Daughters of Africa”. theguardian.com.
Busby, Margaret, editor. New Daughters of Africa. Jonathan Ball, 2019.