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Louise Bennett-Coverley

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Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou, OM, OJ, MBE (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator. [1]

39 relations: Amersham, Archive, British Council, Caribbean Beat, Club Paradise, Coventry, Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), England, Fonds, Harbourfront Centre, Harry Belafonte, Huddersfield, Independence Park (Jamaica), Jamaica, Jamaica Labrish, Jamaican Patois, Kingston, Jamaica, Linton Kwesi Johnson, McMaster University Library, Musgrave Medal, Mutabaruka, Nation language, National Heroes Park, National Library of Jamaica, Ontario, Order of Jamaica, Order of Merit (Jamaica), Order of the British Empire, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Scarborough, Toronto, Smithsonian Folkways, Spanish Town, The Gleaner (newspaper), The Guardian, Toronto, University of the West Indies, Wasafiri, William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections, Yasus Afari.

Amersham

Amersham is a market town and civil parish within the Chiltern district in Buckinghamshire, England, north-west of London, in the Chiltern Hills.

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Archive

An archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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Caribbean Beat

Caribbean Beat is a bimonthly magazine, published in Port of Spain, Trinidad, covering the arts, culture and society of the Caribbean, with a focus on the region's English-speaking territories.

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Club Paradise

Club Paradise is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis starring Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, and Jimmy Cliff.

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Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)

"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is a traditional Jamaican folk song; the best-known version was released by Jamaican-American singer Harry Belafonte in 1956 and later became one of his signature songs.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fonds

In archival science, a fonds is the aggregation of documents that originate from the same source.

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Harbourfront Centre

Harbourfront Centre is a key cultural organization on the waterfront of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated at 235 Queens Quay West.

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Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and social activist.

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Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a large market town in West Yorkshire, England.

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Independence Park (Jamaica)

Independence Park is a sports and cultural complex in Kingston, Jamaica built for the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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Jamaica Labrish

Jamaica Labrish is poetry compilation written by Louise Bennett-Coverley.

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Jamaican Patois

Jamaican Patois, known locally as Patois (Patwa or Patwah) and called Jamaican Creole by linguists, is an English-based creole language with West African influences (a majority of loan words of Akan origin) spoken primarily in Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora; it is spoken by the majority of Jamaicans as a native language.

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Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.

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Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson (aka LKJ, born 24 August 1952) is a Jamaican dub poet who has long been based in the UK.

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McMaster University Library

McMaster University Library is the academic library system for the faculties of Humanities, Social Sciences, Engineering, Science, as well as the Michael DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Musgrave Medal

The Musgrave Medal is an annual awarded by the Institute of Jamaica in recognition of achievement in art, science, and literature.

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Mutabaruka

Allan Hope, better known as Mutabaruka, is a Jamaican Rastafari dub poet, musician, actor, educator, and talk-show host, who developed two of Jamaica's most popular radio programs, The Cutting Edge and Steppin' Razor.

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Nation language

"Nation language" is the term coined by scholar and poet Kamau BrathwaiteMcArthur, Tom, In the words of Kamau Brathwaite, who is considered the authority of note on nation language and a key exemplar of its use: We in the Caribbean have a kind of plurality: we have English, which is the imposed language on much of the archipelago.

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National Heroes Park

National Heroes Park is a botanical garden in Kingston, Jamaica.

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National Library of Jamaica

The National Library of Jamaica is the national library of Jamaica.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Order of Jamaica

The Order of Jamaica is the fifth of the six orders in the Jamaican honours system.

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Order of Merit (Jamaica)

The Order of Merit is part of the Jamaican honours system, and it is the fourth-highest honour awarded by the nation of Jamaica.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) is a drama school in London, England that provides training for film, television and theatre.

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Scarborough, Toronto

Scarborough (2011 Census 625,698) is an administrative district and former city in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Smithsonian Folkways

Smithsonian Folkways is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution.

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Spanish Town

Spanish Town is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica.

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The Gleaner (newspaper)

The Gleaner, is a morning daily newspaper founded by two brothers, Jacob and Joshua de Cordova.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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University of the West Indies

The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 18 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Wasafiri

Wasafiri is a quarterly British literary magazine covering international contemporary writing.

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William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections

The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections is the principal repository for rare books, archives, maps and historical material at McMaster University.

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Yasus Afari

Yasus Afari (born John Sinclair, 1962, Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica)Harris, Craig "", Allmusic, Macrovision CorporationMark Dawes (2007) "", Jamaica Gleaner, 21 April 2007 is a Jamaican dub poet.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bennett-Coverley

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