Allan Hope (Mutabaruka)

Allan Hope dit Mutabaruka est un Dub poet révolutionnaire, acteur et activiste Rastafari jamaïcain. Il est né le 26 décembre 1952 dans le quartier "Rae Town" de Kingston. Son pseudonyme signifie en langue rwandaise "celui qui est toujours victorieux". (Source: Wikipédia)

Mutabaruka (formerly Allan Hope) was born in Rae Town, Kingston on 26th December, 1952. After primary education he attended Kingston Technical High School, where he was a student for four years. Trained in Electronics, he left his first job after about six months and took employment at the Jamaica Telephone Company Limited. During his time at the Telephone Company he began to examine Rastafarianism and to find it more meaningful than either the Roman Catholicism of his upbringing or the political radicalism into which he had drifted. In the late 1960's and early 1970's there was an upsurge of Black Awareness in Jamaica, in the wake of a similar phenomenon in the United States. Muta, then in his late teens, was drawn into that movement (...) Read the whole biography on his website [http://www.mutabaruka.com/]