Abiodun oyewole biography of mahatma

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. "We were angry and we had something to say", says Oyewole. "We addressed the language. We just put it right in front of your face."

Oyewole was born Charles Davis in Cincinnati, Ohio and grew up in Queens, New York. Listening to his parents’ jazz and gospel records and studying Langston Hughes and other great poets in school helped nurture Oyewole’s love of poetry. His mother taught him to "throw [his] voice" by making him recite the Lord’s Prayer in their basement so that she could hear him in the kitchen.

When he was 15 years old, Charles Davis and a friend went into a Yoruban Temple in Harlem out of curiosity. The Yoruba priest there performed a ceremony with Charles, and gave him the name Abiodun Oyewole. He began reading about the Yoruba gods and the significance of one’s ancestors, a