Career
He had written under the name "Godwin Ede". He stopped bearing his "Christian" first name as a way to protest the xenophobia and racism he noted in Germany, a "Christian" country, and to an extent, to protest Western colonialism in general. He also appears in the following anthologies: TOK 1: Writing the New Toronto Helen Walsh educated
(Toronto: Zephyr Press, 2006), Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Nigerian Writing Nduka Otiono & Diego Okonyedo eds. eds.
(Berlin, Germany: Orlanda Verlag, 2004), The Fate of Vultures: British Broadcasting Corporation Prize-Winning Poetry. Peter Porter et al. eds.
(Oxford: Heinemann International, 1989), Und auf den Strassen eine Pest Uche Nduka educated (Bad Honnef, Germany: Horlemann Verlag, 1996) and Voices from the Fringe: An ANA Anthology of New Nigerian Poetry.
Harry Garuba educated (Lagos: Malthouse Press, 1988).
His second Collection, Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children (New York: Akaschic Books, 2009), is out. He was the 2005-2006 Writer-in-Residence at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada under the auspices of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Canada’s Writer-in-Exile network. He edited Sentinel Online poetry journal from 2005 to 2007.
He is a SSHRC Fellow and Doctoral Candidate in English literature at Carleton University, Ottawa.
He is the Publisher and Managing Editor of Maple Tree Literary Supplement, MTLS at <www.mtls.ca>. Ede has lived in Canada since 2002, sponsored as a writer-in-exile by Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Canada.
Between 2005 and 2007 he edited an international online poetry journal, Sentinel Poetry Online.
