On February 3, 2015 Mutabaruka, poet, cultural historian, and radio host of IRIE FM, was recognized with a Lifetime award from Kubba Pringle, Producer of the Bob Marley Birthday Bash at the MX3 Entertainment lawn. Mutabaruka had the audience spellbound and highly responsive to his famous poems known the world over. In 2014, while on his first official visit to The Gambia for the Homecoming Festival, he was the Festival’s “Cultural Griot.” During a break from his appearances, while walking in the Serrakunda Marketplace, Denise Isis Miller and I witnessed people shouting “Dis Poem” and crowded around him to greet him at every stop. Mutabaruka is a national treasure loved at home and abroad.
