Kamau Brathwaite

Kamau Brathwaite (1930 – 2020) was a Barbadian poet and academic who studied at Cambridge University and the University of Sussex. He was a co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement and published numerous collections of poetry including The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy (1973) and Slow Horses (2005) which won the Griffin International Poetry Prize.  He lived in both Barbados and New York.