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Hon. Louise Bennett Coverley, OM, OJ, MBE, D.Litt (Miss Lou)
Further to the High Commission’s recent communication on the passing of our dear Miss Lou, we wish to inform you that a Condolence Book will be opened at the High Commission as of Monday July 31, 2006, to facilitate all those who may wish to record their expressions of sympathy. The Book will be presented to the family in due course.
1. A Thanksgiving service for life is to be held in Toronto on Thursday, August 3, 2006 at 11:00 am at the Revival Time Tabernacle Church, 4340 Dufferin Street (South of Finch).
2. A Viewing of the body has been arranged for Wednesday, August 2, from 4:00 – 9:00 pm at the Highland Funeral Home, 3280 Sheppard Avenue East (West of Warden).
3. The remains of ‘Miss Lou’ and her husband Eric Coverley will be returned to Jamaica where she will be accorded an Official funeral.
We are heartened by the very warm reflections that some of you have been sending us.
Kindest regards.
Patricia Rodney Evering
Acting High Commissioner
July 28, 2006
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I believe someone also posted last week that a book would also be available for signing at the Consul General's Office in Toronto. (as well as others throughout the US and UK)
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Jamaica Mourns Toronto Death Of Cultural Icon "Miss Lou"
Thursday July 27, 2006
She was to Jamaica what the Parliament Buildings and hockey are to Canada or mom, apple pie and baseball are to the U.S. - a cultural icon.
Jamaicans around the world are mourning the loss of the woman they knew as "Miss Lou". Her name was Louise Bennett-Coverley, and when she died at Toronto's Scarborough Grace Hospital on Wednesday, islanders around the world marked her passing.
The 86-year-old had collapsed at her home earlier that morning.
Miss Lou became famous as the woman who made Jamaican patois acceptable, documenting the speech pattern through her poetry, comedy and TV appearances. She was a prolific story teller and comedienne, and hosted several radio shows in her native country that are fondly recalled by those old enough to have heard them.
She also hosted a kids' TV show that made her a touchtone for a generation that couldn't appreciate her other work.
Bennett-Coverley was born in Kingston in September 1919, and her poems quickly rang a cultural bell with Jamaicans worldwide. The government website describes her as "the only poet who has really hit the truth about her society through its own language". She wrote her first composition at the age of 14 and her fame soared soon after.
She received numerous awards for her work, including Jamaica's Order of Merit, and honourary Doctor of Letters degrees from both York University and the University of the West Indies. She was also a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
She wasn't able to collect her final honour. She was due to receive an award at Toronto's Jamaican Consulate Wednesday night. The ceremony was held in her memory along with a moment of silence.
Miss Lou lived in England in the 1940s, acting on radio, working with several troupes and attending the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.
Jamaica's Consul General to Toronto notes a huge void has been created for the community with her absence. "Miss Lou was a true leader," relates Anne-Marie Bonner. "Through her courage, she gave a nation a language and a voice with which its people can express its culture. It was not an easy task in those days to challenge the status quo in such a profound way, but this 'tallawah' woman did it.
"Jamaicans everywhere salute Miss Lou for a life well lived. Walk good, Miss Lou."
"Walk good" is a famous Jamaican goodbye wish that she helped to popularize.
The woman touched both the famous and the common person. Dionne Lewis is here from New Jersey. She insists her legacy must live on.
"When you talk of Jamaica, people go right to Bob Marley or they go to, you know, the food or the music. The beaches, you know? The sunshine or what have you. But we have to keep Miss Lou in the forefront because...she not only taught individualism but she taught team work as well where she would ask the children to participate with each other, treat each other good...She always, always had a smile on her face."
Bennett-Coverley is survived by a son. Funeral arrangements are pending, but a book of condolences remains open at the Jamaican Consulate here for those wishing to pay tribute to her. It's located at 303 Eglinton Ave. East.
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Louise Bennett-Coverley Poem
Her dialect may be foreign to many Canadians, but here's a sample of Miss Lou's work. The poem is called "Noh Lickle Twang", and is about an expatriate Jamaican returning from the U.S. without the country's famous accent.
Me glad fe se's you come back bwoy,
But lawd yuh let me dung,
Me shame o' yuh soh till all o'
Me proudness drop a grung.
Yuh mean yuh goh dah 'Merica
An spen six whole mont' deh,
An come back not a piece betta
Dan how yuh did goh wey?
Bwoy yuh noh shame? Is soh you come?
Afta yuh tan soh lang!
Not even lickle language bwoy?
Not even little twang?
An yuh sista wat work ongle
One week wid 'Merican
She talk so nice now dat we have
De jooce fe undastan?
Bwoy yuh couldn' improve yuhself!
An yuh get soh much pay?
Yuh spen six mont' a foreign, an
Come back ugly same way?
Not even a drapes trouziz? or
A pass de rydim coat?
Bwoy not even a gole teet or
A gole chain roun yuh t'roat.
Suppose me las' rne pass go introjooce
Yuh to a stranga
As me lamented son wat lately
Come from 'Merica!
Dem hooda laugh afta me, bwoy
Me could'n tell dem soh!
Dem hooda sey me lie, yuh was
A-spen time back a Mocho.
Noh back-ansa me bwoy, yuh talk
Too bad; shet up yuh mout,
Ah doan know how yuh an yuh puppa
Gwine to meck it out.
Ef yuh want please him meck him tink
Yuh bring back someting new.
Yuh always call him "Pa" dis evenin'
Wen him come sey "Poo".
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Statement by Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller
"I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of nationally beloved cultural icon, Hon. Louise Bennett Coverley. A renowned performer, poet and folklorist the "Hon. Miss Lou" as she was affectionately known, was hailed by generations of Jamaicans as the very essence of our Jamaicanness - larger than life, earthy, humorous, warm, good natured, highly creative and full of wisdom.
She was regarded as a close family member, part of our national landscape and a true representative of Jamaican hospitality, graciousness and charm.
Steeped in the Jamaican folklore, she believed passionately in her country, and in her work as an artist, never failed to promote confidence in our extraordinary abilities, skills and talents as a people.
One of the pioneers in Jamaican community development, she traveled all over the country, helping to empower communities to advance the process of nation-building, using culture as a powerful weapon in the process. Her achievements in the development of the Jamaican theatre and the Pantomime Movement in particular, are legendary.
With all her nationalistic pride, Hon. Louise Bennett Coverley had universal appeal, always shining brightly, be it as queen of the historic first CARIFESTA in Guyana, or as visiting performer on stage in England, Panama, the United States, Canada or wherever she was in the world. As a folk philosopher, her depth of understanding of human nature expressed in the Jamaican dialect, transcended language barriers - she was always understood and loved.
In her later years, she lived in Canada, where she devoted her time to caring for her ailing husband, Eric Coverley, who predeceased her. Although she was physically absent from Jamaica, she never lost touch with her roots. On her last visit to Jamaica in 2003, she was special guest of the Government for our Independence celebrations.
The visit provided the nation with a much-needed focal point of unity and brought out our finest qualities as a people. She inspired an amazing outpouring of love and goodwill. Barriers were swept aside and thousands joined hands, as well as hearts, in welcoming 'Miss Lou' to her homeland.
From a personal standpoint, Miss Lou was a great inspiration to me. A true example of the finest quality of Jamaican womanhood, she was a strong, courageous defender of the true Jamaican culture. She was my role model and mentor. I will miss her greatly, as will Jamaicans at home and abroad.
On behalf of the Government and people of Jamaica, I extend heartfelt condolences to her family and friends.
Walk good Miss Lou."
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Rousing send-off for Miss Lou
Jamaica's first lady of culture remembered
Aug. 4, 2006. 05:25 AM
ROYSON JAMES
Sandra Carnegie-Douglas, president of the Jamaican Canadian Association, speaks yesterday at a service celebrating the life of the beloved Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley.
A couple thousand Toronto residents yesterday were the envy of two million Jamaicans abroad. And the local settlement did the diaspora proud.
Jamaicans and their friends here gave a rousing send-off to Jamaica's first lady of culture, the soul and voice of the island nation, the beloved Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley, known universally as Miss Lou.
With exquisite music, eulogies of unparalleled quality and timing, and an epic funeral that would have tried the patience of a less resolute and entranced crowd of admirers, Toronto said goodbye to the greatest Jamaican we will ever see in our lifetime.
Miss Lou died last week at Scarborough Grace Hospital at age 86. She'd been living in Canada since 1987, but her popularity worldwide has never waned. She will be buried in Jamaica on Wednesday.
Her body, accompanied by Jamaican government officials who were here for yesterday's service, is being flown to Kingston for a state funeral. Her body will lie in state at the National Arena for public viewing on Monday and Tuesday before she's buried in National Heroes Park, with the likes of former PM Michael Manley and black nationalist Marcus Garvey.
The who's who of the Jamaican community here, bolstered by Miss Lou's people, the common folk, attended the thanksgiving service, stopping traffic as the throngs spilled outside the Revivaltime Tabernacle, overflowed the basement rooms and flooded the yard at Dufferin St., near Finch Ave.
Yes, the service was long — spanning three and a half hours of sweltering island heat in a crammed sanctuary — but it was oh, so sweet, thanks to the delicate direction of Pamela Appelt, former citizenship court judge.
There was ole talk, dialect, old time stories, recalling of radio dramas and television shows, repeating of dialect poems, resurrecting long-forgotten folk songs, unearthing memories of the annual Christmas pantomime and all the time tearing up over one poignant moment after another only to burst into uncontrollable laughter and joy.
This was no day of sadness, despite the unmistakable loss of the woman who taught Jamaicans to embrace their broken English, their dialect, their unique speech patterns as an essential, vital element of who they are.
Turning on its ear the eulogy that Shakespeare's Mark Antony gave in Julius Caesar, Miss Lou's friend and colleague, Maud Fuller, captured the sentiment of the "mourners" when she said: "I come to praise Miss Lou, not to bury her.
"For how do you bury creativity, imagination, originality and artistic integrity," said Fuller, president of the University of the West Indies Alumni Association, a friend of 50 years. "Above all, how do you bury laughter?"
Praise — and laugh — they did yesterday: Jamaican Chinese, politicians from the Ontario government and city hall, Miss Lou's theatre buddies from the 1950s and 1960s, family friends and consular officials.
"She was the barometer of Jamaican life," said Robert Pickersgill, Jamaica's minister of housing, transport and works, who flew up for the service. "We know the people in Miss Lou's world; they are us."
Olivia "Babsy" Walker, representing the opposition party in Jamaica (a former Toronto journalist and sister to police board member Hamlin Grange), said Miss Lou was "no ordinary Jamaican. Her mortality prevented us from acknowledging how great she is." But Miss Lou is in the class of Bob Marley and Marcus Garvey — "pillars of our country."
Gail Scala said the parade of visitors to her Scarborough home always wanted to touch her, as if to determine if she was "real, and not a figment of our homesick imagination."
And Carol Wong, a Jamaican Chinese, broke up the mourners with her recollections of her family and the Chinese populace falling captive to the Jamaican way of speaking — "Jamaican patwa with a Chinese accent."
It was as if each participant went out of his or her way to represent, to live up to the powerful legacy of one Miss Lou.
Miss Lou has a long connection with Toronto. She was the star performer at the first Caribana festival in 1967. In the 1970s, she performed here with Tim Tim, her counterpart from Trinidad and Tobago, in a production with Black Theatre Canada. She has an honorary doctorate from York University.
Still, it seemed incongruous that the most quintessential Jamaican, the woman most responsible for forging Jamaica's sense of themselves as a people, a nation, would be living off the island — even though she carried the title of Jamaica's cultural ambassador.
It's only right that her final resting place will be on the island she so loved, among the native people she so elevated. Miss Lou represented the best in Jamaicans. Yesterday, our Jamaican citizens gave her of their best. And it was a beautiful thing to experience.
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Fri, August 4, 2006
T.O. salutes 'Miss Lou'1,000 mourners pay tribute to poet, actress known as 'Mother of Jamaican culture'
By IAN ROBERTSON, TORONTO SUN
Jamaica's "mother" is making her last trip home.
Three days after islanders celebrate 44 years of independence, poet, comedienne, actress, broadcaster and social commentator Simone Louise Bennett-Coverley will be buried Wednesday in Kingston after a state funeral.
But Jamaicans here got to bid farewell yesterday.
Christened by her mom for a passenger named Simone -- who gave her lifeboat seat to a mother and child trying to leave the Titanic together in 1912 -- the woman forever remembered as "Miss Lou" died here on July 26.
In a 3 1/2-hour service, laughter and applause most often filled the Revivaltime Tabernacle on Dufferin St. Many of the 1,000 mourners even cheered when friends, colleagues and guests quoted her poems and wit in the once-disdained island Patois she is credited with giving credibility to around the world.
'RICHEST OF TRIBUTES'
The life of the 86-year-old, revered as the "Mother of Jamaican Culture," was also celebrated with music, accolades by Jamaican housing minister Robert Pickersgill and MP Olivia Grange, plus messages read from Toronto Mayor David Miller and Premier Dalton McGuinty.
"Miss Lou has got ... the richest of tributes," Michael Lashley, Trinidad and Tobago's consul-general, said in the sweltering church. "She was a daughter of the soil of Jamaica, and a daughter of our Caribbean family."
Separated only physically since 1987 from the beloved Caribbean island where the folklorist was born in Kingston on Sept. 7, 1919, Bennett-Coverley's first book Jamaican Dialect Verses, was published in 1941.
As a columnist for The Sunday Gleaner, she was a much-quoted "poet of the people," mixing humour with wry insight into politics and society, writer Olive Senior said.
While on a drama scholarship in England, she became the BBC's first black woman broadcaster, later famous for radio shows at home, plus a 1970s TV show Ring Ding.
"She was a lion-hearted woman," famed Bahamas actress Leonie Forbes said, calling her "a true mother figure, figuratively and physically."
Maud Fuller's memory of Bennett-Coverley's reaction to warnings about her weight drew laughter: "She said 'My audience loves me fat -- and I don't want to disappoint them.' "
Her friend of 50 years will lie with Jamaica's heroes, but based on her wishes, Eric "Rico" Coverley, a calligrapher who died in 2002, will be buried beside his wife.
She is survived by a stepson, three step-grandsons, plus several adopted children.
Farewells by most participants yesterday were a traditional Jamaican goodbye wish: "Walk good, Miss Lou."
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A Nine Night / tribute will also be held this evening in New York at St Francis College, Founders Hall. Please call 718-783-8345 or 212-935-7506 - Caribbean Cultural Theatre for more info. No charge admission.
Please link HardBeat News for complete article and more info...
Celebrating the Spirit Preserving a Legacy
New York - You are invited to attend a community celebration of the life and work of Jamaican cultural icon, the Hon. Dr. Louise Bennett-Coverley, who died on July 26, 2006 in Toronto, Canada, at the age of 86.
Affectionately know as Miss Lou by generations of adoring fans, this cultural pioneer, folklorist; writer and performer has influenced the careers of countless performing artists in Jamaica and throughout the Caribbean.
On Friday, August 4, under the patronage of Jamaica’s Consul General in New York, the Hon. Dr. Basil K. Bryan, New York based artists from Jamaica and the wider Caribbean pay homage to her legacy.
Artists
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Afro Cariba Singers
Ancient Vibrations (drumming ensemble)
Caribbean Cultural Theater
Moneague Singers
Something Positive (traditional dance and music troupe)
Andrene Bonner (writer)
Wrickford Dalgetty (folk musician - Guyana)
Jabez (dub poet)
Molendeno Moxey (folk musician - Guyana)
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St Francis College 180 Remsen Street
(between Court & Clinton Streets)
Brooklyn, NY
Friday, August 4, 2006
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Supporters
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Brooklyn Caribbean Youth Festival
Guyana Folk Festival
Jamaica Information Service
Jamaica Tourist Board
TnT International, Inc.
June Is National Caribbean American Heritage Month, Inc.
Sunrise Symphony Steelpan Corporation
Information: Jamaica Information Service - (212) 935-7506 Caribbean Cultural Theatre - (718) 783-8345
[email protected]
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TRIBUTES POUR IN FOR MISS LOU
Louise Bennett-Coverley(Miss Lou), who died last week age 86, continues to be eulogised as a true cultural ambassador both in her homeland Jamaica and in the diaspora.
“We join with the Jamaican community in mourning the passing of a great cultural icon that almost single-handedly championed patois as a valid form of expression,” the Jamaican High Commission in London said in a statement.
It continued: “Beginning her career when Jamaica was still very much a British colony, Miss Lou’s work was instrumental in the process of distilling the essence of Jamaicanness within the colonial milieu, which helped us to embrace our individuality in a way that would propel us towards nationhood,” Miss Lou, as she was affectionately known, Jamaica’s premier folklorist, poet, entertainer and comedienne, famous for popularising the Jamaican patios, was born in Kingston on September 7, 1919 to parents Augustus and Kerene Bennett.
According to media reports, Miss Lou collapsed at her home last week and was taken to the Scarborough Grace Hospital in Toronto, Canada, where she died. She had been living in that country for more than a decade.
Known for her local radio shows, including Laugh with Louise, Miss Lou’s Views and The Lou and Ranny Show with Ranny Williams, she was also celebrated for her 1970s children’s television show Ring Ding.
In 1945, Miss Lou was awarded a British Council scholarship to the Royal Academy here in the UK. Between 1945 and 1946 she was attached to the BBC where she hosted two radio programmes Caribbean Carnival and West Indian Night.
The UK’s black cultural community have also been paying their tribute to the First Lady of Comedy. SuAndi, cultural director of the Manchester-based Black Arts Alliance (BAA) said she was ‘blown away” by news of Miss Lou’s passing.
CHALLENGING
“I’ve made every effort to read her work and to understand what she meant to black literature, and in the process gain knowledge about colonialism, racism and all that is beautiful, sunny and challenging,” said the Nigerian-born poet.
SuAndi said she has been associated with Miss Lou’s work for the last 20 years. The BAA is the longest-surviving network of black artists representing the arts and culture drawn from ancestral heritage of South Asia, Africa, South America and the Caribbean.
Louise Bennett received numerous awards, both in Jamaica and abroad. In 2001 she received the Order of Merit; the Order of Jamaica in 1974, the Norman Manley Award for Excellence in the field of Arts, the Institute of Jamaica’s Musgrave silver and gold medals for distinguished eminence in the field of arts and culture.
In 1960 she was made a member of the British Empire (MBE) for work in Jamaica literature and theatre.
Her most recent visit to Jamaica was in August 2003, when she was an official guest of the government and was honoured for her indelible contribution to Jamaica’s cultural history at the Emancipation and Independence celebrations.
Published: 04 August 2006
Issue: 1229
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Louise Bennett-Coverly, 86; Helped Preserve Culture and Language of Jamaica
By Jocelyn Y. Stewart, Times Staff Writer
August 2, 2006
A young Harry Belafonte was preparing his repertoire of Caribbean songs in the 1950s and looking for expert input, when he sought out Louise Simone Bennett-Coverly, known affectionately as Miss Lou and hailed as the mother of Jamaican culture.
Bennett-Coverly had spent decades gathering stories and proverbs just the way she heard them spoken — not in standard English, but in Jamaican patois. She was intent on preserving the folklore as far back as the 1930s, when Jamaica was still under British cultural rule. It was an act of cultural love and pride.
ADVERTISEMENTShe told Belafonte about a song known traditionally as "Hill and Gully Rider." In his hands it became wildly popular as "Day-O," or "The Banana Boat Song," with its unforgettable line "daylight come and me wan' go home."
"That's where it came from," Belafonte said of the song in an interview with The Times. "She was our well of knowledge. When she spoke she told stories in the tongue of the indigenous and the tongue of the average person. It was a remarkable experience,"
Bennett-Coverly, a beloved figure in her homeland, died July 26 at the Scarborough Hospital, Grace Campus in Toronto, hospital officials said. She was 86.
In a career that spanned decades, her humorous performances helped legitimize the language and ultimately gave others license to do the same.
Bennett-Coverly helped define Jamaica's national identity and its perception in the international arena.
"She was the one who broke the barriers and made the way for Bob Marley's singing in patois," said Frankie Campbell of the Fab 5, a Jamaican band. "All the Jamaican stories and proverbs you hear in Bob Marley's music … they were kept alive by people like Miss Lou."
The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper reported that Bennett-Coverly's remains will be returned to Jamaica, where she will receive a state funeral Aug. 9. She had lived in Canada for many years but had requested to be buried next to her husband, impresario Eric Coverly, who died in 2002. She is survived by a son.
Bennett-Coverly began her work in the days of colonialism, when Britain controlled island life, including language. She was born in Kingston on Sept. 7, 1919, and educated in the island's schools in standard English. As a teenager she wrote poetry in standard English, until an experience on a public bus when she was 13 changed her views.
In her search for a seat, Bennett-Coverly ended up in the section reserved for the women who sold goods in the marketplace and carried large baskets. It was then that Bennett-Coverly heard one market woman say to another: " 'pread out yu'self" (spread out yourself), Bennett-Coverly recalled in a 2003 Inter Press Service news agency article.
The move was intended to prevent the well-dressed school girl from sitting in their section. But Bennett-Coverly focused on the patois, the blend of English with African language elements, and how the woman used it.
"That lady is protesting the fact that she has to sit in the last row [because] they might tear somebody's stockings in the front row with their baskets, and I started to write," Bennett-Coverly said.
Before the island's independence, the British and some among Jamaica's elite, "wanted you to speak the queen's English all the time," Campbell said. Patois was considered a corruption of the language.
But Bennett-Coverly saw a treasure in the culture and was well on her way to becoming a deeply committed advocate of the language. At Friends' College in Highgate, Jamaica, she studied social work and Jamaican folklore in 1943. That year she began writing a weekly column for a local newspaper. Two years later she earned a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, the first black woman to do so.
Back in Jamaica, Bennett-Coverly performed plays and told stories, sometimes with roots extending to Africa, in patois. The tales of Anancy, a sharp-witted and cunning spider, had survived generations on the island.
In a nation where the oral tradition was a strong conveyor of morals and values, Bennett-Coverly traveled Jamaica talking to and listening to older people and those in rural areas.
In the decades that followed she taught drama and worked in social welfare agencies, but the preservation of the culture and language was always at the heart of her work. She published volumes of poetry, made recordings such as "Miss Lou's Views," had her own radio programs, including "The Lou and Ranny Show," and a children's television program, "Ring Ding."
In the 1960s, Campbell was a teenager with a band of his own when he met Bennett-Coverly. "We were fascinated by Miss Lou as young persons growing up in the '60s," said Campbell, whose band would record and perform with Bennett-Coverly. "Everybody was fascinated with Miss Lou."
Belafonte, who spent part of his childhood in Jamaica, was in his 20s when he returned seeking the wisdom of Bennett-Coverly. "She was the validation of everything that one needed to know about the music of the region," Belafonte said. "I'd say, 'I'm looking for this kind of song; I'm looking for that kind of song.' She'd say, 'There is a song.' And then she'd proceed to describe it and even sing it."
Later Belafonte and songwriter Irving Burgie made word adjustments so the music would be understandable to an American audience. "Calypso," the album on which the song "Day-O" appeared, was the first by a single artist to sell a million copies and helped create a global audience for Caribbean music. Later forms of island music, including reggae, offered a purer form of the language.
Bennett-Coverly, who spent many years with the island's Social Welfare Commission, also used her performances as a means of addressing social concerns, such as women's rights and the rights of the poor. Later generations, including reggae artists Luciano and protest poet Mutabaruka, would cite her as a significant influence.
"The poems she did were poems she wrote before I was born, and they fit right into the reggae rhythms of today," Mutabaruka said in a 1985 Times article.
Over the years Bennett-Coverly's work won widespread acceptance and she was awarded numerous honors. But she also heard a tribute to her work each time she witnessed a child singing a folk song or reciting poetry in patois at school, something that never would have happened in her youth.
"I say Jamaica is … and a lot of the Caribbean countries now are culturally emancipated," she said in a 1994 article in Everybody's: the Caribbean-American magazine. "We can sing our songs…. the children can sing the song that they know."
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Donations can be made to "Women for PACE (Canada)" for the Gordon Town Basic School (adopted by Miss Lou)
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