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Landmark
Kamau Brathwaite
1930 – 2020
Poet of The Arrivants and theorist of 'nation language'
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A poet and historian whose trilogy The Arrivants traced the journey of Africans to the Caribbean.
Brathwaite championed 'nation language', the creole speech of the Caribbean, as the basis of its literature, and helped found the Caribbean Artists Movement in London in 1966.
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