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Zephaniah won the [[BBC]] Young Playwright's Award and was awarded at least sixteen [[honorary doctorate]]s. A ward at [[Ealing Hospital]] was named in his honour. His second novel, ''[[Refugee Boy]],'' was the recipient of the 2002 Portsmouth Book Award in the Longer Novel category. In 1982, he released an album, ''Rasta,'' which featured [[The Wailers Band|the Wailers]] performing for the first time since the death of [[Bob Marley]], as well as a tribute to [[Nelson Mandela]]. It topped the charts in [[Yugoslavia]], and due to its success Mandela invited Zephaniah to host the president's Two Nations Concert at the [[Royal Albert Hall]], London, in 1996. As an actor, he had a major role in the BBC's ''[[Peaky Blinders (TV series)|Peaky Blinders]]'' between 2013 and 2022.
A committed [[vegan]] and [[animal rights activist]], he self-identified as an [[Anarchism
In 2003, he was offered appointment as an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) but publicly [[declining a British honour|rejected the honour]], stating that: "I get angry when I hear that word 'empire'; it reminds me of slavery, it reminds of thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised".
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