Tributes pour in for Benjamin Zephaniah, a pioneer poet and literary great, who used his creative talent to tell the stories of the forgotten and campaign for the marginalized.
Benjamin Zephaniah was a pioneer poet, making new roads around the globe as he danced along – roads that others could follow. When the message came through on one of the WhatsApp groups I’m part of on Thursday morning, the shock, sadness, and heartbreak we felt was palpable. The writer and poet for whom so many of us Black creatives could only hope to emulate, was gone. Tribute s by those trying to find the words to express their feelings of loss filled my phone screen over and over again.
The footsteps of his life had left a mark in ways that maybe we hadn’t fully comprehended until that point. He is, and will forever be, one of Britain’s literary greats. Benjamin was a creative talent who had the strength to use his superpower for the betterment of others. He told the stories of those who are often forgotten, he campaigned for those who are forced into the shadows, and rewrote the rules of who gets to be considered a literary great. He chose to do this without compromising who he was, and without compromising his beliefs
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