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Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah is a British writer and dub poet. He was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008.
BornBenjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah, April 15, 1958, Handsworth, Birmingham, England
OccupationPoet, playwright, author
NationalityBritish
GenrePoetry, teen fiction
Literary movementRastafari movement Postcolonialism Postmodernism
Years active1980 – present
SpouseAmina (m. 1990, divorced 2001)

About Benjamin Zephaniah

Poet Benjamin Zephaniah was born in Birmingham, England on April 15, 1958. He dies at the age of 65, on December 7, 2023.

Rastafarian spoken-word poet who is best known for works such as Pen Rhythm, The Dread Affair: Collected Poems, and Funky Chickens. In 1982, he released Rasta, an internationally famous spoken-word CD.

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Benjamin Zephaniah before becoming famous

Benjamin Zephaniah was born in the Zodiac sign Aries (The Ram), and 1958 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Dog (狗).

He was up in an Afro-Caribbean community in Birmingham, England, and his poetry was influenced by his surroundings. At the age of eleven, he began performing his rhythmical spoken-word poetry.

Achievement of Benjamin Zephaniah

He was named one of the 50 finest English writers of the postwar era by The Times in 2008.

Benjamin Zephaniah's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

His mother was a Jamaican nurse and his father was a Barbadian postal worker. In 1990, he married Amina Zephaniah, but they divorced eleven years later.

Benjamin Zephaniah on Social Media

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Benjamin Zephaniah Collabed with

Reggae Singer Bob Marley, a Jamaican singer, impacted him.

Benjamin Zephaniah Income & Net worth

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Benjamin Zephaniah Height and Weight

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Latest information about Benjamin Zephaniah updated on March 16 2023.