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Odimumba Kwamdela

1942–2019

Canada

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Odimumba Kwamdela, born J. Ashton Brathwaite (11 September 1942 – 16 January 2019), was a Barbadian-born writer who published 14 books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and three musically dubbed spoken word albums.

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