Kwame Dawes
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Kwame Dawes is a poet, actor, editor, critic, musician and professor of English at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana in 1962 and grew up in Jamaica where he attended Jamaica College and the University of the West Indies at Mona. He studied and taught in New Brunswick on a Commonwealth Scholarship to Canada. Since 1992 he has been teaching at the University of South Carolina. He is a Professor in English and also Distinguished Poet in Residence and Director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative.
As a Ph.D. student at the University of New Brunswick he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Brunswickan.
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