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Visual and multi-artists have long been reacting to Kamau's writings—whether directly or indirectly—resulting in an extended dialogues,…
I DOUBT, KAMAU, you will remember this incident that I feel compelled to relate in this small tribute for your 85 years. I was browsing in…
In 1996, Kamau Brathwaite brought a group of students from New York to Barbados for a week to experience first-hand his Mother Poem.…
In hot sun they spread their umbrellas over their heads, sharing it like a faith making the bright Beausejour heat bearable. Black…
BORN TO SLOW Horses is a complex collection of poems by Kamau Brathwaite that do not conform to poetic conventions at all. Unlike your…
2 If I am only a point in time, my land dispossessed, cleared, layers, in red sand, excavate life, bare tops of scarce trees confirm my…
I have learned each day is different, saddled, as it is, with fragments of reminiscences and long forgotten snippets of sad songs; or, a…
A curious lens dares to Encapsulate elusive Anansi Entwining his fate With CowPastor’s Swaying grass Banshee wind And the sweetest dunks on…
I have begun to gather life’s dust: it’s not really visible, yet, but I can feel it when I touch myself—the texture of my flesh’s longing…
I My race began as the sea began, with no nouns, and with no horizon, with pebbles under my tongue, with a different fix on the stars. But…
The cast of Odale's Choice in a rare intimate interview with the play’s author, Kamau Brathwaite, following its debut performance in…
I’m rising slowly from slabs of rock seeing beyond dreaming, for the first time. How long have I slept in this cave, its patina of…
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