It was late November in 2006 when I 'discovered' Roots Manuva. MySpace was the dominant social platform, laying the foundation for everything else that followed. I had two pages - which I haven't been able to access for a decade because I have forgotten the passwords and don't have the email addresses I set them up with any longer. But, they are still out there: kojobaffoe and kojothepoet. I also had two blogs on Blogger.com: infinitepursuit and imperfectpoetry. The beauty of the Internet at that time was its ability to open up the world of poetry, which I was heavily involved in, in terms...

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