Edward NdopuEdward Ndopu of Namibia has lived in Canada for nearly two decades. He is one of the most highly regarded of living Namibian poets. He is versatile, having written poems, plays, short stories and essays. His work appears in many journals and anthologes of African poetry. Ndopu was the most productive and the most genuinely experimental of Namibia's younger poets until his controversial imprisonment in 1985. He was suspected and falsely accused of being a South African spy. SWAPO moved him to a detention camp near Lubango in Southern Angola, where he was kept with others under deplorable, inhumane conditions. This interrupted his creative phase for several years. Ndopu was freed in 1989 and returned to Namibia as a member of a group of almost 200 SWAPO ex-detainees. After that he played a prominent role in cultural affairs in Windhoek, and took up journalism, writing for Namibian and South African publications. In Canada, he is an effective literary voice for African writing, networking and serving in various public initiatives for the arts. He is much honoured for his work and is one of the leading voices among this generation of cultural interpreters from Africa. Ndopu has just completed a novel, Bridges, and two poetry collections, A Thousand Tears and The Other Side of the Skin. Read More Read Less