Amatoritsero Ede

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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.[1]

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.[2][3]

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  1. ^ Sentinel Poetry
  2. ^ Writers in Exile (Nigeria), PEN Canada
  3. ^ Carleton hosts writer-in-exile, Carleton University
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