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A blue plaque commemorating poet, actor and activist Benjamin Zephaniah has been unveiled in his home city.
The plaque, at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, was commissioned by the Nubian Jak Community Trust, an organisation which highlights the contributions of Black and minority ethnic people in the country.
His wife Qian Zephaniah said he would have been proud to see it displayed in his home city.
The Handsworth-born writer died in December aged 65, two months after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.
Zephaniah was the son of a Barbadian postman and a Jamaican nurse. He was dyslexic and left school aged 13, unable to read or write.
He started out using dub poetry, a Jamaican style of work that has evolved into the music genre of the same name, and later would perform with the group The Benjamin Zephaniah Band.
