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1. Benjamín zephaniah Benjamín Zephaniah was born and raised in the Hands worth district of Birmingham, which he called the "Jamaican capital of Europe". He is the son of a Barbadian postman and a Jamaican nurse] A dyslexic, he attended an approved school but left aged 13 unable to read or write.badiah Iqbal Zephaniah
2. His marry He was married for twelve years to Amina, a theatre administrator, who left him in 2001
3. His history He writes that his poetry is strongly influenced by the music and poetry of Jamaica and what he calls "street politics". His first performance was in church when he was ten, and by the age of fifteen, his poetry was already known among Hands worth's Afro-Caribbean and Asian communities. He received a criminal record with the police as a young man and served a prison sentence for burglary. Tired of the limitations of being a black poet communicating with black people only, he decided to expand his audience, and headed to London at the age of twenty-two.
4. poetry Pen Rhythm (1980) The Dread Affair: CollectedPoems (1985) Arena City Psalms (1992) BloodaxeBooks Inna Liverpool (1992) AK Press TalkingTurkeys (1995) PuffinBooks Propa Propaganda (1996) BloodaxeBooks FunkyChickens (1997) Puffin School'sOut: PoemsNotforSchool (1997) AK Press FunkyTurkeys (Audiobook) (1999) AB White Comedy (Unknown) WickedWorld! (2000) Puffin Too Black, TooStrong (2001) BloodaxeBooks The Little Book of VeganPoems (2001) AK Press Reggae Head (Audiobook) 57 Productions talkingturkeyscool De RongSong
5. Childre´sbooks We are Britain (2002) Frances Lincoln Primary Rhyming Dictionary (2004) Chambers Harrap J is for Jamaica (2006) Frances Lincoln
6. Novels Face (1999) Bloomsbury (published in children's and adulteditions) RefugeeBoy (2001) Bloomsbury Gangsta Rap (2004) Bloomsbury Teacher'sDead (2007) Bloomsbury Dartnell (2009) Bloomsbury Pingu (2002) Penguin
7. his albuns His album Rasta, which featured The Wailers' first recording since the death of Bob Marley as well as a tribute to Nelson Mandela, gained him international prestige[8] and topped the Yugoslavian pop charts.[6][8] It was because of this recording that he was introduced to the political prisoner and soon-to-be South African president Nelson Mandela, and in 1996, Mandela requested that Zephaniah host the president's Two Nations Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Zephaniah was poet in residence at the chambers of Michael Mansfield QC, and sat in on the inquiry into Bloody Sunday and other cases, these experiences leading to his Too Black, Too Strong poetry collection
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