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RIP BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH [April 15, - December 7, ]
Dr Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah was born and raised in Birmingham, England.
He cannot remember a time when he was not creating poetry but this had nothing to do with school where poetry meant very little to him, in fact he had finished full time education at the age of His poetry is strongly influenced by the music and poetry of Jamaica and what he calls ‘street politics’.
His first real public performance was in church when he was 10 years old, by the time he was 15 he had developed a strong following in his home town of Handsworth where he had gained a reputation as a young poet who was capable of speaking on local and international issues.
He loved Handsworth, he called it the Jamaican capital of Europe but although his work had become popular within the African-Caribbean and Asian community he thought the town was too small, he was not satisfied preaching about t