Edward Kamau Brathwaite, CHB (/kəˈmaʊ ˈbræθweɪt/; 11 May 1930 – 4 February 2020), was a Barbadian poet and academic, widely considered one of the major...
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"Limbo" is a poem by Barbadian poet Edward Kamau Brathwaite. It describes the similarity between a limbo dance and the transportation of African slaves...
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"Nation language" is the term coined by scholar and poet Kamau Brathwaite that is now commonly preferred to describe the use of non-standard English in...
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and musicians. The key people involved in setting up CAM were Edward Kamau Brathwaite, John La Rose and Andrew Salkey. As Angela Cobbinah has written, "the...
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Kenyatta, first Kenya president. Kamau Brathwaite, poet and writer from Barbados KAMAUU, American singer and rapper Michael Kamau, Kenyan cabinet secretary for...
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Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020), Barbadian poet E. R. Braithwaite (1912–2016), Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat Errol Brathwaite (1924–2005)...
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(typeface), a combination of typefaces and spelling used by the poet Kamau Brathwaite Sycorax, a fictional planet, and alien race from the Doctor Who episode...
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African woman. Postcolonial authors have also claimed her; for example, Kamau Brathwaite, in his 1994 work Barabajan Poems, includes "Sycorax's book" as a counterpart...
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writers who went on to wider acclaim, including Samuel Selvon, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, John Figueroa, Andrew Salkey, Michael...
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postcolonial author Kamau Brathwaite and published by Savacou Publications in 1994. In this collection, readers experience a number of Brathwaite's overwhelming...
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