Afua Cooper, one of Canada's most versatile poets. Cooper was born in Westmoreland, Jamaica, she 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 […]
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