Benjamin Zephaniah did not have any known children at the time of his death on December 7, 2023. He was known to have married for 11 years to his Amina Zephaniah who was a theatre administrator in 1990.
The couple divorced in 2001. In May 2018, in an interview on BBC Radio 5 Live, Zephaniah admitted that he had been violent to a former partner, confessing to having hit her.
Benjamin Zephaniah’s children: Does Benjamin Zephaniah have children
Benjamin Zephaniah could not bear a child even though he has been married before his death. His full name was Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah and was widely received as a British writer, dub poet and actor. He was included in The Times list of Britain’s top 50 post-war writers in 2008.
Benjamin Zephaniah died on December 7, 2023, at the age of 65, after being diagnosed with a brain tumour eight weeks previously. His friend of nearly twenty years, Joan Armatrading, gave a glowing and heartfelt tribute to him on Newsnight on BBC Two after hearing the news of his death.
Joan Armatrading’s tribute was followed by a re-broadcast of his documentary A Picture of Birmingham, by Benjamin Zephaniah, in which he revisited his birthplace and his former approved school.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
