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Zephaniah is a supporter of Aston Villa F.C. [30][31], Zephaniah won the BBC Young Playwright's Award. You have lied to us, and you continue to lie to us, and you have poured the working-class dream of a fair, compassionate, caring society down the dirty drain of empire.

[34] He was awarded Best Original Song in the Hancocks 2008, Talkawhile Awards for Folk Music (as voted by members of Talkawhile.co.uk[35]) for his version of Tam Lyn Retold recorded with The Imagined Village. Rasta Time in Palestine (1990), an account of a visit to the Palestinian occupied territories, contained poetry and travelogue.

And why not Cornish? Zephaniah, who has Barbadian and Jamaican heritage, said at the time that the word 'Empire' 'reminds me of slavery, it reminds of thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised... 'Benjamin Zephaniah OBE – no way, Mr Blair, no way Mrs Queen. I am profoundly anti-empire.’ Celebrities who have shunned the offer of being made an OBE or MBE include Danny Boyle, Jon Snow and Stephen Hawking.

I woke up on the morning of November 13 wondering how the government could be overthrown and what could replace it, and then I noticed a letter from the prime minister’s office. Some have turned down their award from the Queen for political reasons. Zephaniah is an honorary patron of The Vegan Society,[12] Viva! Whoever is behind this offer can never have read any of my work. [23] In 2015 he called for Welsh and Cornish to be taught in English schools, saying "Hindi, Chinese and French are taught [in schools], so why not Welsh?

[36], People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Benjamin Zephaniah, The 50 greatest postwar writers: 48, "Brighton Magazine – Benjamin Zephaniah: Well Read Rastafarian Poet Comes To Lewes", Lynn Barber interviews Benjamin Zephaniah, "Vegetarians International Voice for Animals", "Benjamin Zephaniah – Put the Number in Your Phone", Arkangel for Animal Liberation :: Online News Magazine, "Why we need to free art by prisoners from behind bars", "Jamaica: Benjamin Zephaniah calls on Jamaicans everywhere to stand up against homophobia", "Has Snoop Dogg seen the Rastafari light, or is this just a midlife crisis? I was there with a million people on February 15, and the last time I was there was just a couple of weeks ago. And surely they will check you first when subjects need to be amused (2002) is a collection of poems celebrating cultural diversity in Britain.

'This has been a live issue for some time but there has been heightened discussion about it among members of the committee since the protests,' a source told The Times newspaper. This OBE thing is supposed to be for my services to literature, but there are a whole lot of writers who are better than me, and they're not involved in the things that I'm involved in. It gives OBEs to cool rock stars, successful businesswomen and blacks who would be militant in order to give the impression that it is inclusive. A senior member of the Commons honours committee said the recent protests had reignited debate about the Empire's association with brutality and slavery. Zephaniah is an honorary patron of The Vegan Society, Viva! This OBE thing is supposed to be for my services to literature, but there are a whole lot of writers who are better than me, and they're not involved in the things that I'm involved in. Smart big awards and prize money © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. (Order of the Order of the British Empire) for his services to literature in the 2003 Queen's Honours List. In August 2007, he announced that he would be launching the Animal Liberation Project, alongside People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Zephaniah mocked OBE recipients A black poet has rejected the offer of an OBE because he claims it stands for colonial brutality and slavery.

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