Amatoritsero Ede

Amatoritsero Ede

Amatoritsero Ede (born March 6, 1963) is a Nigerian poet. In 1998 he won the "All-Africa Christopher Okigbo Prize for Literature." He had written under the name "Godwin Ede", a name he stopped bearing as a way to protest racism he experienced in Germany and to an extent to protest Western colonialism in general. [ [http://www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/magazine0304/page16.html Sentinel Poetry] ]

Ede has lived in Canada since 2005, sponsored as a writer-in-exile by PEN Canada,and he edits an international online poetry journal, Sentinel Poetry Online. [ [http://www.pencanada.ca/programs/exile/cat-Nigeria.php Writers in Exile (Nigeria), PEN Canada] ] [ [http://www.now.carleton.ca/2005-12/1026.htm Carleton hosts writer-in-exile, Carleton University] ]

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