The key people involved in setting up CAM were Edward Kamau Brathwaite, John La Rose and Andrew Salkey.
In its intense five-year existence it set the dominant artistic trends, at the same time forging a bridge between West Indian migrants and those who came to be known as black Britons.
The novelists’ books were being regularly published; at the Commonwealth Arts Festival I had seen work by a few painters, designers and sculptors from the Caribbean; but no one seemed to know how to get in touch with them.
[1] The journal Savacou was started as a platform for CAM, connecting its activities in Britain, the Caribbean region and the African diaspora, and elsewhere internationally.
Linton Kwesi Johnson is among a younger generation of Caribbean writers to have been inspired by CAM during the early 1970s.