Cecil Foster: An African-Canadian Writer

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Cecil Foster is an African-Canadian journalist, novelist, author, and academic who specifically spoke about multiculturalism, race, culture, immigration, and ethnicity. He was born in Barbados in 1954 and emigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1978 where he flourished as a public intellectual. Before moving to Canada, Foster already worked in Barbados as a news broadcaster and editor with Caribbean News Agency (CANA) and Barbados Advocate-News. He continued his journey in broadcasting through several media branches in Canada including Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Financial Post, CBC TV and CBC Radio. He also became a host at a talk show in Toronto known as Urban Talk and appeared in magazines such as Toronto Life, NOW and Canadian Business. Eventually,

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