Labi Siffre is probably best known as a singer - songwriter (he wrote It must be love which is better known as being covered by Madness, but he is also a poet. He once dropped in to a poetry event I was running. I didnt know at the time that he was from that town, so it was as though Id run into Afrika Bambaataa on a tube train (which also happened). Labi Siffre is also gay. The nigger of the title is seen to be a word that is no longer needed - thankfully, but only because we now have gays and they are the open season of the month - especially in the days of the AIDS panic late 1980s / early 1990s.