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You know, you literally imagine the street of london paved with gold and palaces and carriages with Kings And Queens and that sort of thing. Well, it has that sometimes they chuckle. So it took a bit of getting used to. But when youre young, its easier to adjust to a new environment than when youre old. And once i started school, you know, i settled down and, um. I did rather well at school because the education i had injamaica i went to an Elementary School was in some ways superior to what i w...

you know, you literally imagine the street of london paved with gold and palaces and carriages with kings and queens and that sort of thing. well, it has that sometimes! they chuckle. so it took a bit of getting used to. but when youre young, its easier to adjust to a new environment than when youre old. and once i started school, you know, i settled down and, um... i did rather well at school because the education i had injamaica — i went to an elementary school — was in some ways...

linton kwesijohnson, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. so you were 11 when you came over from jamaica in 1963 tojoin your mother, who was already working here. how formative was that experience for you? it was a bit of a shock when i arrived. it wasnt what i had expected. in my childhood imagination, you know, you literally imagine the street of london paved with gold and palaces and carriages with kings and queens and that sort of thing. well, it has that sometimes! they chuckle. ...

britain? linton kwesijohnson, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. so you were 11 when you came overfrom jamaica in 1963 tojoin your mother, who was already working here. how formative was that experience for you? it was a bit of a shock when i arrived. it wasnt what i had expected. in my childhood imagination, you know, you literally imagine the street of london paved with gold and palaces and carriages with kings and queens and that sort of thing. well, it has that sometimes! they c...

Brixton that followed. di great insohreckshan. "it woz in april nineteen eighty wan doun inna di ghetto af brixtan dat di babylan dem cause such a frickshan dat it bring about a great insohreckshan an it spread all owevah di naeshan it woz truly an histarical occayshan it woz event af di year an i wish i ad been dere wen wi run riat all owevah brixtan wen wi mash—up plenty police van wen we mash—up di wicked wan plan wen we mash—up di swamp eighty wan fi wha? fi mek di rulah dem andastan d...

Cause such a frickshan dat it bring about a great insohreckshan an it spread all owevah di naeshan it woz truly an histarical occayshan it woz event af di year an i wish i ad been dere wen wi run riat all owevah brixtan wen wi mash—up plenty police van wen we mash—up di wicked wan plan wen we mash—up di swamp eighty wan fi wha? fi mek di rulah dem andastan dat wi naw tek noh more a dem oppreshan and wen mi check out di ghetto grape vine fi fine out all i coulda fine evry rebeljusa revel in...

One really striking event, the kind of issues that were talking about that inspired you to write was the new cross fire in london in 1981, when 13 young black britons tragically died. and you were part of the new cross massacre action committee and you organised a march of 20,000 with placards saying, "13 dead, nothing said." and you wrote some poetry about that called di great insohreckshan. could you read it for us, please? yeah, well, the di great insohreckshan came after the black peoples da...