had semeach. i love kamau braithwaite's work: he is one of my favorite authors, which is why i was asking. you seem to have crossed lines or bumped into half the african and black diaspora authors of the early period!
ken
--Hi Ken,
Chanukah chag sameach!
I wish that I could answer with some precision. It's another diaspora tragedy – the dispersal of family and friends , far flung, UK, US, Germany, Holland, the Caribbean, various parts of Africa. James passed on I don't even know when. I got to know about it long after the event. I'm told that he got mad … madness…
I last met James accidentally on a British Airways flight and I can't remember when, which year or from where to where but I do remember the long tragic story that he told me...
James Braithwaite is special – he was one of my best friends (of which there were approximately seven)
The mention of Braithwaite conjures first the image of my James chalking up and solving problems calculations on the blackboard, - we were classmates throughout secondary school 1958-1965 – 1969 – he went directly to mathematics - and to Durham (in Northern England ) and was due for a first class honours in maths….
Secondly, the mention of the name Braithwaite conjures "To Sir with love" (Edward Braithwaite) - another Braithwaite - and the film (your department) one of the first modern Black stars "Guess who's coming to Dinner? ": Sidney Poitier
Could be that James is related to Edward (Kamau) Braithwaite since James' father or grandfather is West Indian, but I'd say more likely Jamaican & Maroon, than Barbados ( incidentally my two daughters grew up mostly in Barbados and London… )
James played rhythm guitar in a then popular Band in Sierra Leone, "The Golden Strings "where his elder brother Julian played lead. To get more precise information we could contact their vocalist Cecil Blake or the Strings' bass player Dennis Stephanopoulos. I'm occasionally in touch with them and could enquire.
On Sunday, 6 December 2015 03:54:14 UTC+1, Kenneth Harrow wrote:hi cornelius
when you write below you mention james braithwaite as one of your classmates. is he related to edward (kamau) braithwaite?
ken
On 12/5/15 8:13 PM, Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:
--Another great Sierra Leonean: Adelaide Casely-Hayford
Got to thinking about her today as it's grandson Kobina Hunter's birthday today! (Mother Gladys Casely-Hayford)
(I have wished him a happy birthday on Facebook and wish that I could be there to sing with much gusto, "For he is a jolly good fellow!"
My Classmates the late Akintola Wyse and James Braithwaite along with Sylvester Abimbola Young (along with James another maths genius) and Monty Labour and I were in the lower forms and used to play table-tennis with Kobi who had just finished secondary school and was part-timing as our math teacher at the Prince of Wales School...
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