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Afua Cooper is a Jamaican-born Canadian historian, author, poet, and educator. She was born on 8 November 1957 in Jamaica and moved to Canada in the late 1970s. She is currently a professor of history at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Cooper is a prolific author, having written several books on African-Canadian history, including The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal (2006), The Book of Negroes (2007), and The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Montréal (2008). She has also written several books of poetry, including The Hill (2009) and The House of My Ancestors (2010).
Cooper has received numerous awards and accolades for her work, including the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction in 2006, the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize in 2008, and the Order of Canada in 2009. She was also inducted into the Order of Nova Scotia in 2011.
As of 2021, Afua Cooper's net worth is estimated to be approximately $1 million.
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In 2016 Cooper led the creation of a minor program in black and African diaspora studies at Dalhousie. In 2018 she was proclaimed Poet Laureate for the city of Halifax.
In 2011 Cooper was named to the James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University. She also has expertise in women's history and New France studies, and She is a winner of the Harry Jerome Award for professional excellence.
Cooper has also written two historical novels for children, both based on real historical figures. My name is Henry Bibb: a story of slavery and freedom; and My name is Phillis Wheatley: a story of slavery and freedom, both published in 2009 by Kids Can Press.
My Name is Henry Bibb: A Story of Slavery and Freedom [historical fiction] (Kids Can Press, 2009)
My Name is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom [historical fiction] (Kids Can Press, 2009)
Her book The Hanging of Angelique (2006) tells the story of an enslaved African Marie-Joseph Angelique who was executed in Montreal at a time when Quebec was under French colonial rule. It was shortlisted for the 2006 Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction.
The Hanging of Angélique, The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal (HarperCollins, 2006)
Copper Woman and Other Poems(Natural Heritage Books, 2006)
The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!, with Adrienne Shadd and Carolyn Smardz Frost (Natural Heritage Books, 2002)
Utterances and Incantations: Women, Poetry, and Dub (Sister Vision Press, 1999)
Cooper 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 History (1994), which won the Joseph Brant Award for history. She has also released two albums of her poetry.
We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women's History, with Peggy Bristow, Dionne Brand, Linda Carty, Sylvia Hamilton and Adrienne Shadd (University of Toronto Press, 1994)
Memories Have Tongue: Poetry (Sister Vision Press, 1992)
Red Caterpillar On College Street (Sister Vision Press, 1989)
Your Silence Will Not Protect You (Maya Music, 1986)
WomanTalk: Women Dub Poets (Heartbeat Records, 1984)
Born in Westmoreland, Jamaica, Cooper grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, and migrated to Toronto in 1980. She studied history at the University of Toronto, where she earned a PhD 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.
Afua Cooper (born 8 November 1957) is a Jamaican-born Canadian historian. In 2018 she is an associate professor of sociology at Dalhousie University. She is an author and dub poet. As of 2018 she has published five volumes of poetry. https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/afua-cooper
