Linton Kwesi Johnson travelled to Britain from Jamaica as a boy in 1963. He came to join his mother in South London, who had emigrated as part of the Windrush Generation, named after the ship that ...

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Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in Jamaica in 1952 and emigrated to Britain in 1963. He settled with his mother and father in Brixton, London. After studying sociology at Goldsmiths College, London, he ...

When Jamaican-born dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson immigrated to the U.K. as a child, the country didn't quite live up to the "England" he had pictured in his imagination.

Linton Kwesi Johnson OD (born 24 August 1952), also known as LKJ, is a Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet and activist. In 2002, he became the second living poet, and the only black one, to be ...

The legendary Linton Kwesi Johnson, renowned as the voice of Britain's post-Windrush Generation and who pretty much single-handedly defined the term“ ...

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Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson, Picador £20, 336 pages. Franklin Nelson is an FT editor and writer. Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Caf ...