Dr. Kwame Dawes

      Ghanaian-born, Jamaican-raised poet, essayist, playwright, novelist, and musician, Kwame Dawes is the author of twenty-three books.  His most recent titles include Gomer's Song, A Far Cry From Plymouth Rock: A Personal Narrative, and She's Gone. 

     Dawes is currently Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at the University of South Carolina. 

     Kwame Dawes remains the foremost authority in the world on the lyrics of Bob Marley.

Dr. Melvin B. Rahming

       Dr. Melvin B. Rahming is a Professor of English at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.  He is known internationally as the co-founder and co-director of the International Conference on Caribbean Literature (I.C.C.L.).  Rahming co-edited the text - Changing Currents: Transnational Caribbean Literary and Cultural Criticism (Africa World Press, 2006) with Emily Allen Williams. 

     He is also the author of The Evolution of the West Indian's Image in the Afro-American Novel.