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Afua Cooper


Born
in Westmoreland, Jamaica
November 08, 1957

Genre
Poetry, Nonfiction


Afua Cooper is a Jamaican-born Canadian historian, author and dub poet.

Born in Westmoreland, Jamaica, Cooper grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, and migrated to Toronto in 1980. She holds a Ph.D. in African-Canadian history with specialties in slavery and abolition. Her dissertation, "Doing Battle in Freedom’s Cause", is a biographical study of Henry Bibb, a 19th-century African-American abolitionist who lived and worked in Ontario. She also has expertise in women's history and New France studies.

She has published four books of poetry, including Memories Have Tongue (1994), one of the finalists in the 1992 Casa de las Americas literary award. She is the co-author of We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women's H ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 1,069 ratings · 188 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors
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Black Matters
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My Name Is Henry Bibb: A St...
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Copper Woman: And Other Poems
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Memories Have Tongue
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Incantations and Utterances
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