Bob Marley's London home gets one of few blue plaques for black artists

Plaque at Chelsea house where reggae star lived in the 70s one of ‘unacceptably low’ number

Benjamin Zephaniah was a schoolboy when he sent a letter to Bob Marley along the lines of: “I’m a poet from Birmingham, nobody’s really listening to me in England, what do you think of my poems?”

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