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AAfroQuiz Post-Secondary Categories: Writers + Writing The Wild West Politics + Political Struggles Musicians + Music Entrepreneurs Festivals + Culture Writers + Writing Study Sources Allen, Lillian (poetry/children's literature) Books: Rhythm an' Hardtimes (Domestic Bliss, 1982); The Teeth of the Whirlwind (Black Perspective, 1984); If You See Truth: Poems for Children and Young People (Frontline, 1987); Why Me? (Well Versed, 1991); Nothing But a Hero (Women's Press, 1992); Women Do this Every Day: Selected Poems (Women's Press, 1993); Psychic Unrest (Insomniac, 1999) Biography: Born in 1951 in Spanish Town, Jamaica and educated in the United States, Allen is best known as a dub poet, and has several recordings (Revolutionary Tea Party, 1986 and Conditions Critical, 1988) as well as collections of her poetry. She has also staged community theatre with youth in the Regent Park area of Toronto, and has co-directed and co-produced a documentary film called Blak Wi Blakk. Allen won the Juno Award for recordings of poetry with music in 1986, and again in 1988. She is a member of the Experts Advisory on the International Cultural Diversity Agenda and an executive member of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. Allen is a Professor of Creative Writing at The Ontario College of Art and Design and host of Wordbeat, a nine-episode program on spoken word/performance poetry that aired on CBC Radio One in January 2004. Badoe, Adwoa (children's literature) Books: Crabs for Dinner (Sister Vision, 1995); The Queen's New Shoes (Women's Press, 1998); The Pot of Wisdom: Ananse Stories (Groundwood, 2001); and Nana's Cold Days (Groundwood, 2002). Biography: Badoe was born in Ghana and currently lives in Guelph. She is an educator and African dance instructor with 4 books published in Canada for children and 8 published by Macmillan UK educational press. Trained as a physician in Ghana. Grew up loving the traditional dances of Ghana, West Africa. Her interest in dance has led her to learn dances from other parts of Africa. Her classes and workshops have a unique and infectious vibrancy, capturing the essence of the people, their celebrations and their lives. Cooper, Afua (poetry/children's literature) Books: Breaking Chains (Weelahs, 1984); The Red Caterpillar on College Street (Sister Vision, 1989); Memories Have Tongue (Sister Vision, 1993); Utterances and Incantations: 12 Female Dub Poets From the Black Diaspora (Sister Vision Press, 1999) Biography: Cooper has a strong background in the Performing Arts and has recorded her poetry. Jamaican-born, Cooper immigrated to Canada in 1980. She has a Ph.D. in history at the University of Toronto. Cooper is co-editor of We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African-Canadian Women's History. 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. Cooper still lives in Toronto. She is a winner of the Harry Jerome Award for professional excellence. 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 History (1994), which won the Joseph Brant Award for history. She has also released two albums of her poetry. 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.[3] Edugyan, Esi Biography: Edugyan was raised in Calgary and has had work published in Best New American Voices, which is edited by Joyce Carol Oates. Edugyan currently lives in Victoria, B.C. Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, to Ghanaian immigrant parents,[1] she studied creative writing at the University of Victoria and Johns Hopkins University before publishing her debut novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, in 2004.[1] Despite favourable reviews for her first novel, Edugyan had difficulty securing a publisher for her second fiction manuscript.[1] She spent some time as a writer-in- residence in Stuttgart, Germany, which inspired her to drop her unsold manuscript and write another novel, Half-Blood Blues, about a mixed-race jazz musician in World War II-era Europe who is abducted by the Nazis as a "Rhineland Bastard".[1] Published in 2011, Half-Blood Blues was announced as a shortlisted nominee for that year's Man Booker Prize,[2] Scotiabank Giller Prize,[3] Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize[4] and Governor General's Award for English language fiction.[5] She was one of two Canadian writers, alongside Patrick deWitt, to make all four award lists in 2011.[3] On 8 November 2011, she won the Giller Prize for Half-Blood Blues.[6] Again alongside deWitt, Half-Blood Blues was also shortlisted for the 2012 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction.[7] In April 2012, it was announced that Edugyan had won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Half-Blood Blues.[8] In 2014 she published her first work of non-fiction Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home with the University of Alberta Press.[9] In 2016 Edugyan was writer-in-residence at Athabasca University in Edmonton, Alberta. Hill, Lawrence (fiction/children's literature) (born 1957) is a Canadian novelist, essayist and memoirist.[1] He is best known for his 2013 Massey Lectures Blood: The Stuff of Life, his 2007 novel The Book of Negroes and his 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada.[2] Hill was born in Newmarket, Ontario, to American immigrants – a black father and white mother – who moved to Toronto from Washington, D.C., in 1953.[3] Hill is serving as chair of the jury for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize.[4] Books: Some Great Thing (Turnstone, 1992); Trials and Triumphs: The Story of African-Canadians (Umbrella, 1993); Des grandes choses: roman, trans. Robert Paquin (Blé, 1995); Women of Vision:The Story of the Canadian Negro Women's Association (Umbrella, 1996); Any Known Blood (HarperPerennial, 1997); Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada (HarperFlamingo, 2001) Biography: Lawrence Hill lives in Oakville, Ontario. He has worked as a reporter for the Globe and Mail, and the Winnipeg Free Press. His poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous Canadian journals. Hosein, Clyde (fiction), The Killing of Wilson and Other Stories (London Magazine Press, 1980.) Mollel, Tololwa [Hear an interview] Tololwa Mollel is a children’s author, dramatist and storyteller, who has written seventeen internationally published books, and several plays as well as stories that he created or adapted for performance. His books, which include award winning titles such as Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Supper, Big Boy, and My Rows and Piles of Coins have been published in Canada, the U.S., Australia, England and Tanzania where he was born. His work has been translated into various South African languages, into Korean, Spanish, Serbian, Norwegian and Finnish, and of course his native Kiswahili, Tanzania’s national language. In Tanzania, Mollel was a University lecturer and an actor and performer in a touring company that performed as far as Germany and Sweden. He continued performing in Canada but came to devote himself to writing and to the literary scene in Edmonton, serving as President of the Writers Guild of Alberta in the late 1990s. He does extensive work with schools and libraries, with literacy, arts and educational bodies, and with community organizations. In all this work, Mollel has presented, performed and conducted writing, storytelling and dramatic workshops and writer-in- residence programs in schools, libraries and communities across Canada and the U.S., as well as in England, Australia and Tanzania. Of his presentations and his work with schools, libraries and communities, Mollel says, “I aim to provide a feast of words – written and spoken – for the eye, the ear and the mind; as well as for the creative imagination, and for performance.” Through writing, storytelling and drama, Mollel hopes to empower the young, and others, with the gift of story — to write, tell, share and enjoy stories; to mentor them as he was mentored. Mollel has increasingly come to combine the arts of storytelling, story making and theater into story performance with music with collaborating musicians and artists. Click here to learn about Mollel’s childhood sources of inspiration for his love of story and story making. Odhiambo, David Nandi (fiction/drama/poetry) Books: mouth to mouth (Panarchy, 1995) with Suzanne Buffam and Joelle Hann; afrocentric (Playwrights Canada, 1996); Diss/Ed Banded Nation (Polestar, 1998); Kiplagat's Chance (Penguin Putnam, 2003) Biography: Odhiambo was born in Kenya in 1965 and currently lives in Vancouver where he writes fiction, plays, and poetry. "David Odhiambo joins a third guard of African novelists made up of peers like Uganda's Moses Isegawa and Nigeria's Chris Abani. The books of this younger generation of African writers (heirs to the continent's greats from Chinua Achebe to Mark Mathabane) shed the starched language and steep romanticism of Africa's literary tradition to expose the rawer, hipper, more vulgar aspects of life as lived by most Africans today." Black Issues Saunders, Charles R.