Watch Benjamin Zephaniah’s last TV interview before death

This was Benjamin Zephaniah's last TV interview before he died.Source: Jeremy Vine, Channel 5

Transcript

00:00 I mean, we've come from all different parts of Africa and we don't even know.

00:04 I just know that my parents came from somewhere, my great-great-great-grandparents came from somewhere

00:09 in West Africa. But the thing with British slavery, and I only know about British slavery

00:15 because that's what I'm a subject of, you took away my language, you took away my name,

00:21 you took away my culture. Took it away. It's not like I'm Indian and I still speak Hindi.

00:26 I don't know what my language is, man. How can you pay me back for that with money?

00:31 So it's deeper than this. So when we start moving in one direction, that's a good thing.

00:37 How we sort it out, I don't have all the answers, but at least we can start thinking about the big

00:43 institutions. There's individuals, but at least we can start thinking about the big institutionals

00:47 that made money out of the blood of my family.