![]() He still teaches at the Jamaica School of Art. And when I came off stage this gentleman came up to me and he said "You are Oku Nagba Ozala Onuora" and I was like "What?" He said "You are Oku Nagba Ozala Onuora". So the students’ body would have this concert at the Creative Arts Centre and I would perform. I did a performance while I was at the Jamaica School of Drama and every year during the Christmas time they would have some concerts on the campuses like the Creative Arts Centre, Utech, at the time it was called CAST - College of Arts, Science and Technology. ![]() The mother of my first set of my children. When I came out I would see her and we became involved. ![]() They had visited the prison and I met her back then. I met while I was in prison, Fort Augusta, because the theatre group that she was involved with was called Jamaica Playhouse and they were very famous. She was a student at the University of the West Indies. I met a very feisty and forward young lady at the time by the English name of Phyllis Ranglin at the time. Album DescriptionIn the final part of our exclusive interview with Oku Onuora, he talks about his interactions with fellow poets Michael Smith and Linton Kwesi Johnson, his hiatus and return to performance and his political views… See More Your browser does not support the audio element. "Dub Sketches" was previously released with its vocal counterpart on I a Tell, but the rest of the program will be new material to most American ears: the swinging "Sun Dub (Solar Dub)" and the mildly funky "Dub Changes" are especially well put together, and the brief lessons in revolutionary rhetoric that Onuora interjects from time to time between tracks break things up nicely. Dubbin' Away consists of tracks taken from several Onuora albums that were never released in the U.S., and which improve upon his previous instrumental work by involving real instruments instead of synthesizers and sequencers. There was also a disappointing collection of synthesized instrumental dub called New Jerusalem Dub. American reggae fans were introduced to his poetry and musicianship by the scrappy ROIR label, which released an excellent compilation entitled I a Tell: Dubwize & Otherwise on cassette in the early 1990s (it has since been reissued on CD). Oku Onuora is one of the many obscure dub poets (other than Linton Kwesi Johnson and perhaps Mutabaruka, there really aren't any famous ones) that dot the reggae landscape, pacing to and fro like dreadlocked Cassandras and chanting messages of political apocalypse over fundamentalist drum'n'bass grooves. ![]() Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. ![]()
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