I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought. I get angry when I … - Benjamin Zephaniah

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I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought. I get angry when I hear that word "empire"; it 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.

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Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (15 April 1958 – 7 December 2023) was a British writer, dub poet and Rastafarian. He was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008.

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Native Name: Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah

Alternative Names: Benjamin Springer

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