Books & Chapbooks
- Breakin chains. Toronto: Weelahs, 1983.
- Red Caterpillar On College Street. Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1989
- Memories Have Tongue: Poetry. Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1994
- Utterances and Incantations: 12 Female Dub Poets From the Black Diaspora. Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1999
- Copper woman and other poems. Toronto : Natural Heritage Books, 2006
- The hanging of Angelique : the untold story of Canadian slavery and the burning of old Montréal. Toronto : HarperCollins, 2006 [novel]
Articles and Books
- "How I Found My voice," in Selwyn Cudjoe, ed. Caribbean Women Writers University of Massachusetts Press, 1991
- Co-author We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women's History University of Toronto Press, 1994
- "The Search for Mary Bibb, Black woman Teacher in Nineteenth-Century Canada West," Ontario History 83 March 1991 39-54. Reprinted in "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible," A Reader in Black Women's History, ed. Darlene Clark Hine, Carlson Publishing, 1995 171-185
- "'Out of a Cardboard Box beside Our Bed like a Baby': The Founders of Sister Vision Press in Elspeth Cameron & Janice Dickin, eds." Great Dames University of Toronto Press, 1997 291-306
- "Portrait of Julia Turner as a Teacher: Ontario's Black Community and Education, 1845-1900," in Ed Montigny, ed. Papers in Post-Confederation Ontario History Forthcoming
Interviews
- Dearth of a nation.(poet Afua Cooper)(Interview). Sheila Nopper. Herizons 17.1 (Summer 2003): p22(5).
- Interview by Kwame Dawes, in Caribbean Poets and Caribbean Aesthetics Goose Lanes Publishers, 1999
- "If You're True to Your Voice," interview by Makeda Silvera in the Other Woman: Women of Colour in Contemporary Canadian Literature SisterVision Press, 1994.
Thesis
- Black Teachers in Canada West, 1850-1870: A History. Master's thesis, University of Toronto, 1991, microfilmed by the Federal Government.
- Doing battle in freedom's cause: Henry Bibb, abolitionism, race uplife, and Black Manhood, 1842-1854. Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 2000.
Discography
- WomanTalk: Women Dub Poets Heartbeat Record, 1984
- Sunshine, Maya Music, 1989
- Poetry Is Not a Luxury, Maya Music 1990
- Worlds of Fire (in Motion), Toronto: Soundmind Production, 2002
- Love and Revolution, Soundmind, 2009
Afua Cooper's works copyright © to the author.