Benjamin Zephaniah: 1958 – 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutes Celebrating the life of the Dub Poet Laureate.
Today BestBlogAbout mourn the passing of one of the truly great figures in Black British Culture and one of the nations most beloved poets, Benjamin Zephaniah. Benjamin Zephaniah was born on April 15, 1958, in the Handsworth district of Birmingham, the son of a Barbadian postman and a Jamaican nurse and was influenced by the creative expression of his Caribbean household and culture. https://twitter.com/LennyHenry/status/1732743894511571278 He surprisingly left school, or should that be he was expelled at 13 as a Dyslexic, despite already having a taste and talent for writing and poetry. Inspired by the rhythms of Jamaican music and social...
