City Honors Mutabaruka

Historian, educator, ​Mutabaruka is honored internationally, locally.  Full article here. 

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Performance Poet, Musician, Historian Given Lifetime Award

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Allan Hope, a performance poet, musician, educator, and historian, also known as Mutabaruka, will be honored on Saturday, March 10th, 2018. 

Internationally recognized, Mutabaruka will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 Black Royalty African Heritage Expo at Hopeville's Our Lady of Fatima Hall, 2071 Baldwin Street.

Mutabaruka became involved in black awareness causes since the 1960s.  The Rastafari with a Catholic upbringing was first published in Swing (magazine) in 1971.  His fame got a boost in 1981 in a performance by him in Reggae Sunsplash.  Among his many other accomplishments, Mutabaruka lectured at Stamford University in the year 2000.

Jamaica gave him their Order of Distinction, he was honored by the National Center for Youth Development, and he excelled as an educator and performer.     

​Gleaner article here.  World News Report article here.

Staff Writer

March 7th, 2018