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style="display:none">Guyanese journalist (born 1835)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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class="infobox-data role">Publisher</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hansibpublications.com/">Hansib Books</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bocas_Henry_Swanzy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Bocas Henry Swanzy Award">Bocas Henry Swanzy Award</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Arif Ali</b> (born 13 March 1935)<sup id="cite_ref-Hoyles_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hoyles-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a <a href="/wiki/Guyana" title="Guyana">Guyanese</a>-born publisher and newspaper proprietor who migrated to <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> in 1957. The company he founded in 1970, <b>Hansib</b>, was among pioneering publishers in the <a href="/wiki/UK" class="mw-redirect" title="UK">UK</a> that disseminated publications of relevance to Britain's black community, others including <a href="/wiki/New_Beacon_Books" title="New Beacon Books">New Beacon Books</a> (1966) and <a href="/wiki/Bogle-L%27Ouverture_Publications" title="Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications">Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications</a> (1968).<sup id="cite_ref-SN_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SN-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hansib went on to become the largest black publisher in Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Colourful_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Colourful-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2024, Ali was announced as winner of the annual <a href="/wiki/Bocas_Henry_Swanzy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Bocas Henry Swanzy Award">Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arif_Ali_(publisher)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Family_background_and_early_years">Family background and early years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arif_Ali_(publisher)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Family background and early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One of seven children, Arif Ali was born in Danielstown, on the <a href="/wiki/Essequibo_River" title="Essequibo River">Essequibo coast</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Guiana" title="British Guiana">British Guiana</a> (now Guyana); two of his grandparents were <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a> <a href="/wiki/Indentured_labourers" class="mw-redirect" title="Indentured labourers">indentured labourers</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Colourful_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Colourful-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but by the time of his birth the family had become wealthy landowners.<sup id="cite_ref-Sherwood_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sherwood-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After graduating from high school in <a href="/wiki/Georgetown,_Guyana" title="Georgetown, Guyana">Georgetown</a>, Ali left on 12 August 1957 for London, England, intending to study economics,<sup id="cite_ref-SN_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SN-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and arrived at <a href="/wiki/London_Victoria_station" title="London Victoria station">Victoria Station</a> on 3 September,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> having travelled to Britain via the Canary Islands, Spain, Italy and France.<sup id="cite_ref-AC_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AC-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He initially worked at different jobs, including on the buses and as a porter in a hospital — where in 1958 he met a young English nurse named Pamela who three months later became his wife.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_business_ventures">First business ventures</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arif_Ali_(publisher)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: First business ventures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1966 Ali started to run a greengrocer's in <a href="/wiki/Tottenham_Lane" title="Tottenham Lane">Tottenham Lane</a>, an area with a significant Caribbean population in <a href="/wiki/North_London" title="North London">north London</a>, and before long, as <a href="/wiki/Carolyn_Cooper" title="Carolyn Cooper">Carolyn Cooper</a> notes, "his business place became a vibrant cultural centre".<sup id="cite_ref-Cooper_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cooper-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the few outlets for Caribbean provisions such as yams, plantains and cassava, the shop also sold newspapers brought in from Caribbean countries including Guyana, <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</a> and <a href="/wiki/Barbados" title="Barbados">Barbados</a>: "The newspapers served to connect West Indians in the diaspora with their respective home territories."<sup id="cite_ref-SN_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SN-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ali progressed from this to producing on a <a href="/wiki/Gestetner" title="Gestetner">Gestetner</a> machine a cheaply priced compilation of articles called <i>The Westindian</i>, a venture that proved successful.<sup id="cite_ref-SN_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SN-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He sold the food shop and in 1970 founded Hansib Publications — named after his parents, Haniff and Nasibun (Sibby) — <sup id="cite_ref-Colourful_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Colourful-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> specifically to cater for this readership and in April 1971 the company published <i>The Westindian Digest</i>, a magazine for Britain's West Indian communities.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1973 Hansib published its first book, edited by Ali and entitled <i>Westindians in Great Britain</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sherwood_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sherwood-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> New editions of this "Who's Who" came out in subsequent years, and with the fifth edition in 1982, the name of the publication was changed to <i>Third World Impact</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Newspaper_publishing">Newspaper publishing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arif_Ali_(publisher)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Newspaper publishing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ali's career as a newspaper publisher started in 1973 with the acquisition of <i><a href="/wiki/West_Indian_World" title="West Indian World">West Indian World</a></i> from its then owner Aubrey Baynes, who had launched the paper in mid-1971 but had become disillusioned with its financial viability.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under Ali's editorship the <i>West Indian World</i> prospered, campaigning on various educational issues that were affecting black schoolchildren in Britain. Ali went on to further engage and communicate with the Caribbean, African and Asian communities by establishing the <i>Asian Digest</i> (August 1980),<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the newspapers <i><a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Caribbean Times">Caribbean Times</a></i> (1981), <i>Asian Times</i> (1983) and <i>African Times</i> (1985), as well as <i>Root</i> magazine (1987).<sup id="cite_ref-AboutUs_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AboutUs-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the 1990s he had a staff of 140, publishing three weekly papers and two monthly magazines. The circulation of the <i>Caribbean Times</i> peaked at 28,000, with average sales of about 10,000 copies.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Book_publishing">Book publishing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arif_Ali_(publisher)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Book publishing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1997 Ali sold his newspapers in order to concentrate on book publishing,<sup id="cite_ref-Sherwood_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sherwood-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Hansib remains "the biggest and most diverse black book publisher in Britain".<sup id="cite_ref-Colourful_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Colourful-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Talking to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> in 2010, Ali said: "In the 1960s, mainstream European-led publishing houses rarely published black and minority ethnic (BME) writers' work, if at all. Little positive was written about us, our cultures, our backgrounds and performances. I went into publishing to print stories and feelings that needed telling and would not be produced elsewhere."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the time of its 40th anniversary, in 2010, Hansib had brought out more than 200 titles,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in categories encompassing politics, history, culture, sport, cookery, to multicultural literature including poetry, fiction and memoir, with claims to have for more than four decades "reflected and chronicled the achievements and struggles, the turmoils and frustrations, and the hopes and dreams of Britain's Caribbean, African and Asian communities."<sup id="cite_ref-AboutUs_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AboutUs-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ali himself has edited some of the company's successful titles, among them the Nations Series, illustrated portraits of countries, such as <i>Jamaica Absolutely</i>, <i>Trinidad and Tobago: Terrific and Tranquil</i> and <i>Guyana at 50: Reflection, Celebration and Inspiration</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cooper_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cooper-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AC_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AC-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In parallel with his publishing activities, Ali has been involved over the years with various Black political organisations, and was public relations officer for the West Indian Standing Conference, an umbrella organisation comprising more than 40 UK-based African and Caribbean groups.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arif_Ali_(publisher)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Beacon_Books" title="New Beacon Books">New Beacon Books</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bogle-L%27Ouverture_Publications" title="Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications">Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arif_Ali_(publisher)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output 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class="external text" href="http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/guyana-review/09/03/publishing/">"A lifetime in publishing: Arif Ali and the Hansib story"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Stabroek_News" title="Stabroek News">Stabroek News</a></i>, 3 September 2008.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mia Morris, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.black-history-month.co.uk/sitea/articles/100_Great_Britains.html">"100 Great Black Britons"</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged October 2016">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup>, Black History Month website.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Colourful-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Colourful_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Colourful_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Colourful_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Colourful_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Rob Hayward, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.colourfulradio.com/content/business/13021">"Arif Ali of Hansib Publications"</a>, Colourful Radio, 19 March 2015.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 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publisher"</a>. <i>Bocas Lit Fest</i>. 20 March 2024<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 March</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Bocas+Lit+Fest&rft.atitle=2024+Bocas+Swanzy+Award+honours+Guyana-born+publisher&rft.date=2024-03-20&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bocaslitfest.com%2F2024%2F03%2F20%2F2024-bocas-swanzy-award-honours-guyana-born-publisher%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AArif+Ali+%28publisher%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Sherwood-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Sherwood_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Sherwood_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Sherwood_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Marika_Sherwood" title="Marika Sherwood">Marika Sherwood</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1106">"Caribbean Publishing in Britain. A Tribute to Arif Ali" (reviews)</a>, <i>Reviews in History</i>, <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Historical_Research" title="Institute of Historical Research">Institute of Historical Research</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_London" title="University of London">University of London</a>, July 2011.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hoyles (2015), p. 104.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-AC-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-AC_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-AC_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Adwoa Korkor, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://angelacobbinah.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/forty-and-still-going-strong/">"Forty and still going strong"</a>, Angela Cobbinah, 30 October 2010.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hoyles (2015), p. 108.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Cooper-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Cooper_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cooper_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Carolyn Cooper, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100307/cleisure/cleisure3.html">"Seaga's Jamaica? Absolutely!"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Gleaner" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamaica Gleaner">Jamaica Gleaner</a></i>, 7 March 2010,</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hoyles (2015), pp. 112–13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hoyles (2015), p. 142.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hoyles (2015), p. 144.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Morrison" title="Lionel Morrison">Lionel Morrison</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=76M-nuHaji8C&dq=%22Arif+ali%22+publisher&pg=PA37"><i>A Century of Black Journalism in Britain: A Kaleidoscopic View of Race and the Media (1893-2003)</i></a>, Truebay Ltd, 2007, p. 36. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9555540-0-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-9555540-0-1">978-0-9555540-0-1</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hoyles (2015), p. 117.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-AboutUs-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-AboutUs_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-AboutUs_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hansibpublications.com/epages/es147335.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/es147335/Categories/AboutUs">"About Us"</a>, Hansib website.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hoyles (2015), p. 134.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fay Wertheimer, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/nov/24/minority-publisher-hansib-40th-birthday">"Minority publisher celebrates 40th birthday"</a>, <i>The Guardian</i>, 24 November 2010.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Angela Cobbinah, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.camdenreview.com/node/375088">"Caribbean Publishing in Britain: A Tribute to Arif Ali, by Asher and Martin Hoyles"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160827184532/http://www.camdenreview.com/node/375088#">Archived</a> 27 August 2016 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i>Camden Review</i>, 22 September 2011.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sharon Millar, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://caribbean-beat.com/issue-88/caribbean-bookshelf-novemberdecember-2007#axzz3xmFEhUaL">"Caribbean Bookshelf"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Beat" title="Caribbean Beat">Caribbean Beat</a></i>, Issue 88 (November/December 2007).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://theygavethecrowdplentyfun.com/hansib-publications/">"Hansib Publications"</a>, <i>They Gave the Crowd Plenty Fun</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hoyles (2015), p. 138.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arif_Ali_(publisher)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Asher & Martin Hoyles, <i>Caribbean Publishing in Britain: A Tribute to Arif Ali</i>, Hansib Publications, 2011; reprinted 2015. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-906190-42-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-906190-42-2">978-1-906190-42-2</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arif_Ali_(publisher)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hansibpublications.com/">Hansib</a> official website.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.obv.org.uk/news-blogs/arif-ali-true-community-hero">"Arif Ali: A true community hero"</a>, <a href="/wiki/Operation_Black_Vote" title="Operation Black Vote">Operation Black Vote</a>, 28 November 2010.</li> <li>Adwoa Korkor, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://angelacobbinah.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/forty-and-still-going-strong/">"Forty and still going strong"</a>, Angela Cobbinah, 30 October 2010.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://museumofcolour.org.uk/people-of-letters-exhibition/arif-ali/?piece=8">"People of Letters | Arif Ali"</a>, <i>Museum of Colour</i>.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4J7BCfB2YM">"Arif Ali by Alexander D Great (c) 2020"</a>. 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