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KOKROKO: FOR KAMAU BRATHWAITE

It is as if there is a shadow of something whole interrupting the relentless clouds of snow swirling about us, and suddenly, the dark body…

Kwame Dawes·May 7, 2015
Kamau Brathwaite with Marguerite Laurent

MEETING IN ST MARTIN

Kamau Brathwaite (right) and Marguerite Laurent, attorney and performance artist. The Haitian-American legal activist met Kamau at the St…

Linda Deane·May 7, 2015
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SOME LOVE FOR ‘WORDS NEED LOVE TOO’

Kamau Brathwaite's Words Need Love Too (House of Nehesi Publishers, 2000) was called "a felicitous example of the publication of a major…

Linda Deane·May 7, 2015
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RIPPED JEANS (or the story I ought to write)

(Email to the Editors) "[These are] three photos taken when I was a student at UWI, Mona, in 2006 and Kamau came to launch Born to Slow…

Ishion Hutchinson·May 7, 2015
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FROM THESE TWO WORLDS: BRATHWAITE’S SEARCH FOR CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL WHOLENESS

THE STATE OF exile is another theme that predominates West Indian writing, and it certainly permeates Kamau Brathwaite’s poetry. In the…

Horace I. Goddard·May 6, 2015
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KAMAU, A CONFLUENCE OF INFLUENCES

MAY THERE BE many more fruitful years, for Kamau Brathwaite has never stopped writing as the years have passed. May there be joy in a life…

Elaine Savory·May 5, 2015
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PALM TREE SYNDROME

PALM TREE SYNDROME: Colonial Installation: Plant Me, Please (Mixed-media drawing, May 2010, Private collection) The piece has many layers,…

Gail Pounder-Speede·May 5, 2015
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PUTTING IMAGERY TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF CULTURE

I MET KAMAU (I was once chided for respectfully saying, “Mr Braithwaite”) in 1978. We were invited to participate in the fifth anniversary…

Dorbrene E. O'Marde·May 5, 2015
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“WIDOWERED IMAGES”

A REVIEW OF KAMAU BRATHWAITE’S THE ZEA MEXICAN DIARY: 7 SEPTEMBER 1926-7 SEPTEMBER 1986 (THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS, 1993) This is a…

Cyril Dabydeen·May 5, 2015
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…I LIIITE DISSS CANDLE INNN YOR NAME…

real/dreeem/innnbeeetweeen, yOr ridddimmms, rituals an riiites continew to creeeAte =beee-tru-to-yOr-self= sculptures innn deee lannnscape…

caroline booops sardine·May 5, 2015
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Looking for Kamau

It seemed easy enough. Asked to provide a poem with links to Kamau, I immediately thought of one I had written around the same time I was…

Adonijah·May 2, 2015
Kamau 85: Illustration by Lamair Nash; text from “Griot” by Icil Phillips.

Big, bright wave: KAMAU 85

ON MONDAY, MAY 11, 2015, Barbadian cultural icon Kamau Brathwaite turns 85. For the past three months, ArtsEtc has been calling out to…

Linda Deane·May 1, 2015