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Birth Name:

Kamau Brathwaite

Male

Birth Date:

Sun, May 11, 1930

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados

Age:

94

Zodiac Sign:

Taurus

Astrology Data:

Sun

20°

Tau

13'

About Kamau Brathwaite

The Honourable Edward Kamau Brathwaite, CHB (/kəˈmaʊ ˈbræθweɪt/; 11 May 1930 – 4 February 2020), was a Barbadian poet and academic, widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon. Formerly a professor of Comparative Literature at New York University, Brathwaite was the 2006 International Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, for his volume of poetry Born to Slow Horses.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Petri Liukkonen. "Kamau Brathwaite". Books and Writers

• The Ocean’s Tide: Parentheses in Kamau Brathwaite’s and Nathaniel Mackey’s Decolonial Poetics at Cordite Poetry Review

• Griffin Poetry Prize biography

• Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip

• OOM Gallery Archive / Photograph of Edward Kamau Brathwaite in Birmingham, United Kingdom, 1980s

• Kamau Brathwaite reads from Born to Slow Horses on YouTube (video)

• Several articles by Brathwaite in CARIFESTA and Tapia from the Digital Library of the Caribbean

• "Retamar", "Word-Making Man", "The New Year Midnight Poems", "Nest", Calabash", "Song" – English/Italian version in La Rivista dell'Arte, 2/2, pp. 168–212.

• Kamau Brathwaite (Edward Brathwaite) sound recordings from PennSound Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania

• Crowdsourced Kamau Brathwaite Zotero Bibliography

• Kamau Brathwaite, Poet Who Celebrated Caribbean Culture, Dies at 89, The New York Times, 17 February 2020.

• St. Martin cultural activists/writers attend Kamau Brathwaite’s funeral in Barbados. The Daily Herald, 25 February 2020.

• "Negus - a tribute to Kamau Brathwaite (R.I.P.)" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, February 2020.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Kamau Brathwaite: Sun 20 Taurus, Moon 7 Scorpio, Mercury 2 Gemini, Venus 13 Gemini, Mars 13 Aries, Jupiter 19 Gemini, Saturn 11 Capricorn, Uranus 13 Aries, Neptune 0 Virgo, Pluto 17 Cancer, Mercury Square Neptune, Sun Semi Sextile Jupiter, Sun Sextile Pluto, Mercury Semi Square Pluto, Venus Sextile Mars, Venus Conjunct Jupiter, Venus Quincunx Saturn, Venus Sextile Uranus, Mars Square Saturn, Mars Conjunct Uranus, Mars Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Mars Square Pluto, Jupiter Semi Sextile Pluto, Saturn Square Uranus, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Uranus Square Pluto, Neptune Semi Square Pluto

Categories related to Kamau Brathwaite: 2020 deaths, 20th-century male writers, 21st-century male writers, 1930 births, Alumni of the University of Sussex, Cambridge, University of the West Indies academics, May 11 births, New York University faculty, People from Bridgetown, Male poets, 21st-century poets, 20th-century poets, Alumni of Pembroke College, Recipients of the Musgrave Medal, People educated at Harrison College (Barbados), Barbadian male writers, Caribbean Artists Movement people, Barbadian poets, Afro-Barbadian, Barbadian academics, Barbados in World War II