Afua cooper biography for kids

1957-

Poet, historian, educator

Jamaican-born Afua Cooper is a pioneer of the Canadian dub poetry and spoken word movement. Her poems reflect what she calls her "historical, global, woman-centered, political, and social consciousness;" they have appeared in many journals and anthologies around the world, and in three books, the first of which was published in 1983. Cooper has also recorded her performances and her CDs sell around the world. One of them, Worlds of Fire: In Motion (2002) took the number one spot on CKLN's radio playlist; she has given hundreds of live performances and readings.

Cooper is also an influential historian who has taught history, women's studies, and Caribbean studies at Canada's Ryerson and York universities, and at the University of Toronto, where she teaches African Canadian history and women's history. She sits on the board of the James Johnston Chair in Black studies at Dalhousie University and is considered to be one of the mos