11:56am Tuesday 28th October 2008
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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