Abiodun oyewole biography for kids

Abiodun Oyewole is a poet, teacher and a founding member of the American music and spoken-word group the Last Poets, which laid the groundwork for the emergence of Hip-Hop. Every Sunday for the past 30 years, Oyewole has opened his home to feed his fellow artists with food for thought, body and soul. During these sessions, Oyewole critiques, shares life experiences and a love of poetry with poets, writers and musicians from around the world. Oyewole continues to write poetry (almost every day), and travels around the world performing poetry, teaching workshops and giving lectures on poetry, history and politics.

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Abiodun Oyewole is a poet, teacher and founding member of hip hop forefathers The Last Poets.

Often referred to as the godfathers of rap, The Last Poets, were formed in 1968 at a memorial for Malcolm X. Steeped in black consciousness and Afrocentricity and evoking a sense of pride and a feeling of empowerment their words were a call to arms for a generation of oppressed black Americans. Encompassing revolution, sex, death, drugs and Black Power these words were used as an art form and a statement of intent.

Oyewole has had a long and illustrious career working with such luminaries as Pharoah Sanders, Bill Laswell, UNKLE and former Last Poet Umar Bin Hussan. Alongside music Abiodun has written and published several collections of his poetry alongside essays and short stories reflecting on his experiences as a poet and activist. Perhaps his greatest legacy is “Sundays @ 110”, where every week for the past thirty years he has opened his home to feed his fellow artists with food for thought, body and soul. During these sessions he critiques, shares life experiences and his love of poetry with writers and musician from around the world.

“Experimenting with street poetry and percussive sound, the music of Harlem’s Last Poets helped lay the groundwork f

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