![]() Currently Halifax’s Poet Laureate, Afua is an accomplished poet and novelist. ![]() Afua is the series editor for the recently-launched Henry and Mary Bibb Black Canadian Studies Series at the University of Regina Press. ![]() Cooper has received numerous awards including the Harry Jerome Award for Professional excellence, the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission award, and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) website feature for her historical work. For her achievements in and contributions to history, especially that of African Canadians, education, and the arts Dr. Additionally, she founded the Black Canadian Studies Association, and the Dalhousie Black Faculty and Staff Caucus. Cooper co-ordinates the Black Studies Minor at Dalhousie. Afua recently chaired the scholarly panel investigating Dalhousie’s relationship to race and slavery, and is the lead author of the Report on Lord Dalhousie’s History on Slavery and Race. She is professor of Black Studies at Dalhousie University. A Leading expert in African Canadian and African Diaspora history, she has done ground-breaking work in bringing Black Canadian history to the fore through her research, teaching, public speaking, publications, and other forms of knowledge mobilization. ![]() ![]() Afua Cooper is the immediate past James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian studies at Dalhousie University. ![]()
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