Africa: Linton Kwesi Johnson Gave Poetry Back to the People

The 2020 winner of the PEN Pinter Prize, LKJ's poetry puts the ignominy and hardship of the black experience in Britain front and centre in words that echo across the decades.

The dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, this year's recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize, is the third consecutive black winner of the gong instituted in memory of Nobel-winning playwright Harold Pinter. Johnson, popularly known as LKJ, follows in the wake of British poet Lemn Sissay (2019) and Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2018).

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