Born in Barbados in 1930, Edward Kamau Brathwaite was educated at Harrison College in Barbados and Pembroke College in Cambridge. He earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Sussex.
Using ‘nation language’ as well as linguistic and typographic innovation, Brathwaite composes poems that deftly parse the connected strands of postcolonial, historical, and person inquiry.
Source: Poetry Foundation
Kamau Brathwaite's first song Calypso released on Thu Jan 01 1970.