Oku Onuora
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Oku Onuora (formerly Orlando Wong) is a Jamaican dub poet and performer.
Onuora came to public attention in the mid-1970s, while incarcerated for robbery, when his poetry, with its sharp description of lower-class urban life, came to the attention of Jamaican writers who arranged for the publication of his first collection, Reflections in Red. Well-known literary and cultural personalities, and students at the University of the West Indies, campaigned for his release which was achieved in 1977.
Ref: [www.oomgallery.net - photo of Oku Onuora in London 1980's / OOM Gallery Archive Pogus Caesar - Exhibition Muzik Kinda Sweet
In the Igbo language from the southeastern region of Nigeria. Oku means Fire / Light, while Onuora means never burns out. So in completion, Oku Onuora translates to everlasting fire or light.
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