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Elombe Brath

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Elombe Brath
Rayuwa
Cikakken suna Cecil Brathwaite
Haihuwa New York, 30 Satumba 1936
ƙasa Tarayyar Amurka
Mutuwa Harlem (mul) Fassara, 19 Mayu 2014
Ƴan uwa
Abokiyar zama Helene Nomsa Brath (en) Fassara
Ahali Kwame Brathwaite (en) Fassara da John Edward Brathwaite (mul) Fassara
Karatu
Makaranta High School of Art and Design (en) Fassara
Sana'a
Sana'a mai zanen hoto
Mamba African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (en) Fassara

Cecil Elombe Brath (Satumba 30, 1936 - Mayu 19, 2014)[1] ɗan gwagwarmayar Pan-African ne, an haife shi a birnin New York na al'adun Barbadian, wanda aka fi sani da kafa Ƙungiyar Patrice Lumumba. Ya kasance mai fafutuka mai tasiri, wanda Stokely Carmichael ya gane shi a matsayin "Dean of Harlem Nationalists"[2] da Dudley Thompson, "Icon of the Pan-African Movement".[3][4]

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An haife shi a Brooklyn, New York, inda mahaifinsa ya yi hijira daga Barbados a cikin 1920s.[1] Brath ya girma a Harlem da Hunts Point, kuma ya halarci Makarantar Sakandare na Fasahar Masana'antu (yanzu Art da Design), daga baya ya ci nasarar karatun kwaleji zuwa Makarantar Kayayyakin Kayayyakin Kayayyakin.

A cikin 1956, ya kasance cikin masu haɗin gwiwa na Afirka Jazz-Art Society & Studios "don dawo da jazz a matsayin kiɗan al'adun Afirka na zamani waɗanda ya kamata masu fasaha baƙar fata ke sarrafa su", kuma a cikin 1962, ya fara aiki a matsayin mai zane mai hoto na ABC Television, ya kasance a can har sai da ya yi ritaya a 1999.

Brath ya yi yaƙi don kawar da amfani da kalmar "negro" kuma, a cikin 1961, ya ƙaddamar da kamfen na "Black is Beautiful" tare da jerin shirye-shiryen salon Afrocentric wanda ke nuna matan Ba-Amurke waɗanda aka fi sani da Grandassa Model[5] kuma sun buga manyan afros.

A cikin 1975 Brath ya kafa, tare da Irving Davis, Patrice Lumumba Coalition, [6] wanda ya goyi bayan haƙƙin yancin kai ga Angolan, 'yan Afirka ta Kudu, da Namibiya da sauran ƙungiyoyin 'yanci na Afirka. A cikin 1976, haɗin gwiwar ya fitar da wata sanarwa ta manufofin da ke kira ga goyon bayan sojojin 'yantar da Zimbabwe.[7] Sun ba da hankali ga kauracewa Ipi Tombi a 1977, waƙar Broadway wanda ke da alaƙa da ɓarna rayuwa a ƙarƙashin mulkin wariyar launin fata.

Brath shi ne mai watsa shirye-shiryen rediyo na birnin New York na Afrikaleidoscope akan WBAI,[8] kuma galibi yana shirya abubuwan da suka faru da fage a cikin birni don jawo hankali ga siyasar Afirka da abubuwan da ke faruwa a yanzu.

A cikin 2003, Brath ya haɗu da Ƙungiyar Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararru ta Duniya (WADU) don ba da shawarar haɗewar al'ummomin Afirka ta hanyar siyasa, al'adu, da tattalin arziki da Afirka. An kaddamar da WADU a hukumance a shekarar 2004.[9]

Manyan masu tunani waɗanda Brath ya ƙidaya a matsayin tasiri - Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Carlos A. Cooks, da ɗan uwansa Clennell Wickham - sun yi yaƙin siyasa a madadin baƙar fata masu aiki a Barbados na mulkin mallaka.[10]

Brath ya mutu a Harlem yana da shekaru 77.

A cikin 2017, an saka sunan Elombe Brath Way a cikin girmamawarsa.

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  2. Boyd, Herb. "Tribute to Elombe Brath". Amsterdam News. Archived from the original on February 7, 2015. Retrieved February 7, 2015
  3. Pryce, Vinette K., "Son of Barbados honored by Harlem street name", Caribbean Life, October 3, 2017.
  4. Elombe Brath". World African Diaspora Union. Archived from the original on November 30, 2018. Retrieved February 7, 2015
  5. Ra, Amun. "Happy Natural Day". Archived from the original on August 29, 2012. Retrieved February 7, 2015
  6. "Patrice Lumumba Coalition". African Activist Archive. Retrieved February 7, 2015
  7. Patrice Lumumba Coalition. "Southern Africa Must Be Free! USA Subversion Must Be Exposed!" (PDF). African Activist Archive. Michigan State University. Retrieved February 7, 2015
  8. Minter, William; Gail Hovey; Charles Cobb Jr., eds. (2007). No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists Over a Half Century, 1950–2000. Africa World Press. p. 199. ISBN 9781592215744
  9. "World African Diaspora Union". Archived from the original on June 1, 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  10. Ransom, Jan (May 21, 2014). "Harlem mourns death of Elombe Brath, lifelong warrior in battle for pan-African empowerment". New York Daily News. Retrieved February 7, 2015.