Kamau Brathwaite

Kamau Brathwaite was born Lawson Edward Brathwaite in Bridgetown on 11 May 1930. A pupil at Harrison College, he studied history at Pembroke College, Cambridge, then from 1955 to 1962 was an education official in Ghana. Back in the West Indies, he taught at the University of the West Indies, in Jamaica, from 1963, and was co-founder and secretary of the Caribbean Artists Movement, in London. A professor at New York University from 1992, he died in Barbados on 4 February 2020.

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• PoetryRights of PassageKamau Brathwaite · 1967Literature