Ekwueme Michael Thelwell

 

Ekwueme Michael Thelwell
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Ulster Spring (en) , 25 ga Yuli, 1939 (86 shekaru)
ƙasa	Tarayyar Amurka Jamaika
Karatu
Makaranta	Howard University (en) University of Massachusetts Amherst (en) Jamaica College (en)
Harsuna	Turanci
Sana'a
Sana'a	Marubuci, university teacher (en) , essayist (en) , gwagwarmaya da mai karantarwa
Employers	University of Massachusetts Amherst (en)
Mamba	Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (en)
Imani
Jam'iyar siyasa	Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (en)

Ekwueme Michael Thelwell (an haife shi Michael Miles Thelwell ; 25 ga Yuli 1939) marubuci ne ɗan Jamaica, marubuci, farfesa kuma mai fafutukar kare hakkin jama'a. Ya kasance a cikin 1970 wanda ya kafa shugaban Sashen Nazarin Afro-Amurka a Jami'ar Massachusetts Amherst .

Rayuwar farko

An haife shi Michael Miles Thelwell a Ulster Spring, Jamaica, ya halarci Kwalejin Jamaica kuma daga baya ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin hulda da jama'a na Kamfanin Ci gaban Masana'antu na Jamaica (1958-59). A cikin 1959, ya koma Amurka, inda ya sami ilimi a Jami'ar Howard (yana samun BA, 1964) da Jami'ar Massachusetts Amherst (MFA, 1969).

Ayyukan aiki

Thelwell ya kasance mai aiki a cikin Black Freedom Movement, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), kuma a cikin 1963 ya kasance Daraktan ofishin Washington na Kwamitin Gudanar da Ƙwararrun Ƙwararru ( SNCC ). A cikin shekarun 1980 na gwagwarmayar yaki da wariyar launin fata ya haifar da dokar da ta kafa doka da ta haramta harajin kamfanoni ga kamfanoni na Amurka da ke biyan haraji ga gwamnatin wariyar launin fata a Afirka ta Kudu.

A cikin hirar rediyon 2005 da Amy Goodman na Dimokuradiyya Yanzu!, Thelwell ya ce: "A gaskiya ban zama bakar fata ba har sai da na sa kafa a kasar nan (Amurka).

Rubutu

Thelwell sananne ne ga littafinsa na 1980 The Harder Sun Zo, bisa fim ɗin taken guda ɗaya game da rayuwa da mutuwar ɗan adam na ɗan Jamaica Ivanhoe " Rhyging " Martin. Marubuci dan Najeriya Chinua Achebe ne ya yaba wa littafin (wanda ya baiwa Thelwell sunan Igbo Ekwueme, ma’ana “mutumin da yake aikata abin da ya ce zai yi”) da kuma kwararre a fannin adabi Harold Bloom, wanda ya hada shi a shafi nasa na The Western Canon .

Thelwell ya kuma buga kasidu, zargi da sharhi a cikin Black Scholar, The New York Times, Village Voice, The Massachusetts Review, Temps Modernes, Partisan Review, Présence Africaine (Paris) da kuma Afirka Sharhi . Ƙirar gajerun labarunsa da kasidunsa, Ayyuka, jin daɗi, da rikice-rikice: Essays in Struggle, an sake shi a cikin 1987. Ya kuma taimaka wajen shirya da kuma gyara tarihin siyasar baƙar fata Stokely Carmichael, Shirye don juyin juya hali: Rayuwa da gwagwarmaya na Stokely Carmichael (2003). A halin yanzu Thelwell yana rubuta wani muhimmin bincike na Chinua Achebe, wanda ya sadaukar da tarin kasidun sa na bege da cikas ga Thelwell na 1988.

Har ila yau, Thelwell ya rubuta wasan kwaikwayo guda biyu ( Wakilin Washington, 1972; Girl Beneath the Lion, 1978, tare da Paul Carter Harrison ). Ya kasance babban mai ba da shawara kan jerin talabijin Eyes on the Prize (sashe na II; 1990).

Kyauta

Kyautar wallafe-wallafen Thelwell ya samu sun haɗa da haɗin gwiwa daga Gidauniyar Rockefeller, Society for Humanities, National Endowment for Arts da Medal Centennial na Cibiyar Jamaica.