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Afua Cooper

Submitted by DianaK on Tue, 20/09/2016 - 09:49

<p>Afua Cooper&nbsp;(Ph.D, African Canadian&nbsp;History)&nbsp;has expertise which includes slavery, abolition, and freedom, especially for the 18th and 19th centuries, gender studies, Black education, and Black literatures. Her work&nbsp;having been&nbsp;published and award-winning, she is an accomplished writer.&nbsp;As the Johnston Chair in Canadian Black Studies at Dalhousie University, Dr. Cooper has engaged in research, teaching, and publication on Black Canada.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/jrj-chair.html">Read more about Afua here.</a></p>

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Graduation Year: 
2000
Current Position: 
James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies
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Department: 
African Studies Program
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Dalhousie University
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<p>Dr. Afua Cooper is not only a&nbsp;scholar, historian, poet, and social and cultural commentator, she's also&nbsp;an African Studies grad.</p>

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