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'A man of integrity': Tributes pour in after writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah dies aged 65
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'A man of integrity': Tributes pour in after writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah dies aged 65
Trailblazing writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah has died aged 65, leaving behind a “joyful legacy" of art and activism
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