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Brathwaite: The Caribbean poet who took Kenyan name after visit

Sometimes in the 1980s, a Barbadian writer Edward Brathwaite (pictured) arrived in Kenya for the second time to visit his long-time friend and celebrated author Ngugi wa Thiong’o in Limuru.

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