![]() ![]() You had people like Walter Rodney, who had come to Jamaica at one time, and historically, the Jamaican people are very rebellious, and throughout the history of the Jamaican people we have seen this…like numerous rebellions and people even exporting the whole ideology of black consciousness, people like Marcus Garvey. So that’s how I grew up, that kind of climate, in the '60s. Rastafari added to that, the Black Power movement was at its peak at the time. So it was a very interesting period, where Jamaica, although a very small island, had influence because of the politics of the island. And this came out of the whole environment that was taking place, the environment of the time where in the Caribbean, in the U.S., in Africa, there was anticolonial movement taking place, there were former colonies were striving for independence. There were very sharp lines between JLP and PNP, but during that time, there was a movement taking place, led by the Rastafarian movement, and it was anticolonial. I was born in 1952 I grew up in eastern Kingston, a place called Brown’s Town, in an area called Dunkirk, and it was a working-class community. ![]() Tell us about the community you grew up in. ![]() Oku Onuora: My name is Oku Onuora, Jamaican poet, dub poet to be exact. 10, 2015, in Jamaica, following Oku’s poetry reading at the University of the West Indies, Mona, as part of an event celebrating the life and work of noted poet and academic, Mervyn Morris. Afropop's David Katz and Saxon Baird interviewed Oku Onuora Feb.
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