I first met Benjamin Zephaniah in Northern Ireland at the Bloody Sunday inquiry hearings. He was poet in residence in Michael Mansfield's chambers. It was an appointment he relished, and he was fascinated by watching the political and legal processes of a public Inquiry. A few years later we each received an honorary degree from Westminster University. Benjamin told the students how he had turned down an OBE because …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PM on January 18, 2024