Lynn Barber interviews Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Zephaniah From The Observer By Lynn Barber
Published 18 January 2009
Benjamin Zephaniah has lived in Birmingham, Jamaica, Newham, Egypt, Yugoslavia, South Africa, and now, at 50, divides his time between Beijing and a village near Spalding, Lincolnshire. It's the Spalding bit that I find incongruous. You just do not expect to find dreadlocked Rastafarian dub poets in Spalding, Lincs. Or maybe you do. I've never been there - maybe it's crawling with Rastafarian poets? But no, he assures me, he is the only one. I…
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