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Dzifa Benson wins UK's leading poetry prize

Focus on Africa

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British-Ghanaian poet Dzifa Benson has won UK's leading poetry prize, the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. The prize was set up to recognise and give a platform to the next generation of British poets – whose writers reflects what it means to live and work in Britain today. Born to Ghanaian parents in London, Dzifa grew up in Ghana, Nigeria and Togo and now lives in West London. She's been talking to Victoria Rubadiri. (Photo:Dzifa Benson. Credit: Kaya La Bonte-Hurst)

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