Time Come av Linton Kwesi Johnson

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<p><b>‘Key to understanding Black British history’</b> – <i>The Sunday Times</i><br><b>‘Sharp and still relevant’</b> – Zadie Smith<br><br>One of the great poets of modern times, and a deeply respected political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of non-fiction. In <i>Time Come</i>, he selects some of his most powerful prose – book and music reviews published in newspapers and magazines, lectures, obituaries and speeches – for the first time. Written over many decades, these works draw on Johnson’s own Jamaican roots and on Caribbean history to explore the politics of race that continue to inform the Black British experience.<br><br>Ranging from reflections on the place of music in Caribbean and Black British culture as a creative, defiant response to oppression,