He had written under the name "Godwin Ede" but 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.
Ede is the publisher and managing editor of Maple Tree Literary Supplement (MTLS).
He was also a SSHRC Fellow and Doctoral Candidate in English literature at Carleton University, from which he received in his PhD in 2013.
[citation needed] His doctoral thesis was titled "The Global Literary Canon and Minor African Literatures," a cultural materialist analysis of the subordination of contemporary African literature to the metropolitan canon.
[citation needed] He has a BA and MA in Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures and German Linguistics from the University of Hanover, Germany.