Caribbean Poetry, as we know it, changed forever with the coming of Kwame. For a start, he is the embodiment of the African Jamaican, born as he was of Ghanaian and Jamaican parents, and he moves with ease and authority between multiple worlds. Everything about Kwame’s art is multi-dimensional. Poet, playwright, scholar, editor, musician, social …
Amongst Kwame Dawes’ long list of achievements, the Calabash International Literary Festival, one of the best literature festivals anywhere on earth, an eagerly anticipated (now) biennial event that has won kudos for Jamaica, is outstanding. Calabash, founded jointly by Colin Channer, Justine Henzell and Kwame, has become a Jamaican national treasure. Kwame plays a leading …
You have to see him in the dying embers of a beach bonfire, the reggae from the sound system is turned low so the steady wail of the breeze is heavy, ancestral breeze; the whole sorrow of the Trade Winds in there, and he seems to understand this in the way he stands, hands crossed …