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Benjamin Zephaniah

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Benjamin Zephaniah is a British Rastafarian writer and poet, and is well known in contemporary English literature. He is also the patron of the east London based anti-racist organization Newham Monitoring Project. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of North London (in 1998), the University of Central England (in 1999), Staffordshire University (in 2002), London South Bank University (in 2003), the University of Exeter and the University of Westminster (in 2006).


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Youth Unemployment: I Wanted to Use Poetry to Speak for Myself

(8) Comments | Posted 31 August 2012 | (01:00)

As someone who was kicked out of school at the age of 13, and left school unable to read or write properly with no qualifications to my name, I know a lot of people believed I would amount to nothing. In many ways I got lucky and I'm proud to...

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