Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley more commonly known as Miss Lou,
(7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet,
folklorist, writer, and educator. Writing and performing her
poems in what was known as Jamaican Patois or Creole, she was
instrumental in having this "dialect" of the people given
literary recognition in its own right as a nation language,
located at the heart of the Jamaican poetic tradition, and
influencing many other poets, including Mutabaruka and Linton
Kwesi Johnson to do similar things. June 16, 1898 - 1981 |
LEONARD HOWELL IS KNOW AS THE FOUNDING FATHER OF THE RASTAFARI
MOVEMENT. Leonard Percival Howell was born on June 16th, 1898 in
Red Lands, Clarendon. the oldest of 10 children born to farmers
Charles and Clemeteena Howell who transitioned earth on May 1935
and May 1919 respectfully. He left home at the tender age of 13
for his global travels with the support and encouragement of his
parents. As a young man, he traveled around the world from
Panama to New York to West Africa noti