Best-selling Rasta poet at library (From Halesowen News)

Best-selling Rasta poet at library

11:56am Tuesday 28th October 2008

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It was poetry in motion when a Rastafarian wordsmith visited Halesowen library as part of a string of events marking Black History Month.

Jamaican Yasus Afari performed his work at the library in the Cornbow Centre whilst on a tour of the UK.

Library spokesman Chris Attwood said: "It was most impressive - Yasus was really, really good.

"He told us a bit about the history of black Jamaicans and Rastafarian history.

"Some of the performance was in Patois which is a cross between English and a Jamaican dialect."

Chris said Yasus didn't learn to speak English until his late teens when he went to college in Jamaica.

Yasus is the author of the Jamaican best-seller Overstanding Rastafari.

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