Kamau Brathwaite

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