Limbo (Brathwaite poem)
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"Limbo" is a poem by Barbadian
poet Edward Kamau Brathwaite
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It describes the similarity between a limbo dance and the transportation of African slaves into the West Indies and America.
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...
poet Edward Kamau Brathwaite
Edward Kamau Brathwaite
Edward Kamau Brathwaite is widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon. A professor of Comparative Literature at New York University, Brathwaite is the 2006 International Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, for his volume of poetry, Born to Slow Horses.Brathwaite...
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It describes the similarity between a limbo dance and the transportation of African slaves into the West Indies and America.