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Checking Out Me HIstory
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Max Williams
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His poetry challenges racism and prejudice.
This poem may, to some extent, have achieved its purpose: in 2016, a
statue
was erected in London in honour of
Mary Seacole
, one of the subjects of the poem.
John Agard
was born in 1949 in Georgetown, the capital of what was then
British Guyana