He has been a winner of the Zimbabwean Achievers Awards and a nominee of the BAFTA Awards. He has been personally mentored by legendary Civil Rights Activist and poet Clarence Thompson O.B.E., appeared on stage and performed with the world famous Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, shared platforms with members of the European Parliament and a CNN Hero of the year, and has been a plenary speaker at the Oxford University Pan-African Conference along with several African leaders, including government ministers and the current Acting President of Zambia, Guy Scott.

Dumi has been published internationally; his debut children’s book “The Day the Sun promised to smile FOREVER!” has been translated to three languages with all the proceeds donated to Innocence in Danger, a children’s Foundation created at the initiative of the UNESCO Director General to raise money for summer camps catering for victims of child sexual abuse in more than 32 countries. His poetry has been published in several countries including Zimbabwe, Ghana, Germany and Canada, with some publications being used to educate children in Uganda. Dumi has supported global philanthropic initiatives, including the Sarajevo International Peace Conference, Planet Aid, Save the Congo, Academia For Green Africa, AFRUCA Children’s charity, Haiti Earthquake Disaster, Pakistani Hope and many others.

Another proponent of multiculturalism and freedom of movement whose work is much admired is the Dreadloxt Rasta, ‘Sir’ Benjamin Zephaniah. We never knew the extent to which Benjamin was a revolutionist until we eventually took a more in depth look at his work. Delving into his poetry and interviews has helped reveal unto us how dynamic is the man, sincere, committed and of course talented. True to his word, Benjamin uses his talent to reach people all around the world, especially young people, and the excluded. Benjamin seeks unity, equality and justice. Not only for humankind, but enriching his humanity through his abstinence from animal derived food, yes you got it, Benjamin is also an animal freedom fighter

Yes johnny prefers his name spelt with a lowercase j, rather than an uppercase J. This sounds about right, right inline with his disgust with number 10 downing street, the whole street, parliament, house of common frauds, the metropolitan police, the royal mockery and rest of the ruling class. We have a whole incomplete chapter on johnny already, but here is a brief one two, he ‘is a performance poet and photo-collage artist. He escaped child abuse as a teenager, fleeing to a similarly seedy situation in 1970 Soho, and incarceration in Feltam Psychiatric Borstall, and later gaining a Koestler art award. He has been described as many things: a poet, a word wizard, lyrical genius. He has used his gifted tongue to attack hypocrisy and oppression of all kinds with a humour at once subtle and biting. With a well tuned bullshit detector, he upholds a quintessential British talent to make us laugh at ourselves’. And so it goes, johnny is a survivor of the medical psychiatric industrial complex johnny has directed and produced films about the hypocrisies of the psychiatric state, check the vid.

She is the daughter of a Roman Catholic Irish mother and a mixed Scottish and Welsh Protestant father. Anne left school at sixteen having never been able to really “fit in” with the constraints of the education system (wiki). It was Anne’s poem called Toro that inspired us to look her up. Despite starting in the early 80’s Anne is still going strong and has been very successful. When you have people doing microphone checks to this high standard you know you’ve they got the X-factor 😉 Read More