Mabel Dove Danquah

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Mabel Dove Danquah
Member of the 2nd Parliament of the Gold Coast (en) Fassara

15 ga Yuni, 1954 - 17 ga Yuli, 1956
Election: 1954 Gold Coast legislative election (en) Fassara
Rayuwa
Cikakken suna Mabel Ellen Dove
Haihuwa Accra, 1905
ƙasa Ghana
Mutuwa 1984
Ƴan uwa
Mahaifi Frans Dove
Mahaifiya Eva Buckman
Abokiyar zama J. B. Danquah (en) Fassara  (Satumba 1933 -
Karatu
Makaranta Annie Walsh Memorial School (en) Fassara
Harsuna Turanci
Sana'a
Sana'a ɗan jarida, ɗan siyasa, marubuci da short story writer (en) Fassara
Muhimman ayyuka Anticipation (en) Fassara
Payment (en) Fassara
Sunan mahaifi Marjorie Mensah

Mabel Dove Danquah (1905[1] -1984) ita 'yar jaridar Gold Coast ce, mai fafutukar siyasa,[2] kuma marubuciya mai kirki, daya daga cikin matan farko a Yammacin Afirka da ke aiki a wadannan fannoni.[3] Kamar yadda Francis Elsbend Kofigah ya lura dangane da majagaba na rubuce-rubuce na Ghana, "kafin fitowar masu wannan ƙaƙƙarfan ra'ayi na mata kamar Efua Sutherland da Ama Ata Aidoo, akwai Mabel Dove Danquah, mata mai saurin ra'ayi."[4] Ta yi amfani da wasu maganganu iri-iri a rubuce don jaridu daga 1930s:" Marjorie Mensah "a cikin Times of West Africa;" Dama Dumas "a cikin African Morning Post;" Ebun Alakija "a cikin Jaridar Nigerian Daily Times; da" Akosua Dzatsui "a cikin Accra Evening News.[3] Ta shiga siyasa a cikin shekarun 1950 kafin samun 'yancin kai na Ghana, ta zama mace ta farko da aka zaba a matsayin memba na kowace majalisar dokokin Afirka.[5] Ta kirkiro wayar da kan jama'a da kuma bukatar gudanar da mulkin kai ta hanyar ayyukanta.[6]

Ilimi da farkon shekarun[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

Mabel Ellen Dove an haife ta a Accra ga Eva Buckman, 'yar kasuwa a Osu, da Francis (Frans) Dove (1869-1949),[7] lauya daga Saliyo wanda shi ne Shugaban farko na Gold Coast Bar.[3] Tare da 'yan uwanta mata, Mabel yana da shekara shida an kai shi Makarantar Annie Walsh Memorial a Freetown, Saliyo,[8] kuma ta sami ƙarin ilimi a Ingila a Anglican Convent a Bury St. Edmunds da St. Makarantar Michael, Hurstpierpoint,[9] inda ta dauki matakin sakatariya, ba tare da burin mahaifinta ba.[10][11] An sake tura ta zuwa Freetown, kuma yayin da ta taimaka ta kafa kulob din wasan cricket na mata,[12] ta shiga cikin al'ummomin wasan kwaikwayo na gida da karatu sosai, kafin ta dawo tun tana da shekaru 21 zuwa Gold Coast.[9] Ta sami aiki a matsayin ɗan gajeren zanen rubutu tare da Dattijon Dempster na tsawon shekaru takwas, sannan ta koma G. B. Olivant, kafin ta tafi aiki a matsayin Manajan tare da kamfanin kasuwanci na A. G. Leventis.[9]

Aikin Jarida[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

Ta fara rubutu ne ga jaridar The Times of West Africa, jaridar farko ta kasar Ghana, wacce Dr J. B. Danquah ya kafa kuma mallakar ta kuma tana da matukar goyon baya ga hakkokin bil adama yayin da suke musanta mamayar kasashen waje.[13] Ta hanyar shafin "Ladies Corner [daga baya Mata] ta Marjorie Mensah" (1931-34),[3] labaran nata sun sami babban shahararta a bainar jama'a: "ta yi kokarin mata su karye da tsari, don samun kwarin gwiwa daga masu fada a ji, da yin tir da mulkin mallaka, da yin gwagwarmaya don 'yancinsu."[3][14] Ta kuma sami sha'awar mallakar takarda, wanda daga ƙarshe ta aura a 1933.[1] A shekara ta 1939, ta ba da jawaban rediyo don nuna goyon baya ga yaƙin.[15]

Bayan jaridar The Times of West Africa ta daina aiki, sai ta ci gaba da yin rubutu don Jaridar African Morning Post (1935-40), Jaridar Nigerian Daily Times (1936-37), Accra Evening News (1950-1960s) da Daily Graphic ( 1952). Lokacin da a cikin 1951 ta ɗauki nauyin shirya labarai na Accra Evening News - takarda na Convention People’s Party (CPP), wanda aka kafa a 1948[16] - ita ce mace ta biyu da ta taɓa yin gyaran jarida a Ghana. Kodayake nadin ya kare bayan watanni biyar saboda rashin jituwa da shugaban CPP Kwame Nkrumah kan hanyoyin edita,[10] amma ta kasance mai biyayya ga Nkrumah da jam'iyyar.[17]

Siyasa[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

Kasancewarta da siyasa ta fara ne bayan Kwame Nkrumah ya kafa Jam'iyyarsa ta Convention People’s Party (CPP), a cikin 1949, kuma ta zama memba na ma’aikatan kishin kasa na Accra Evening News,[12] tare da shiga yakin neman karshen mulkin Birtaniyya da kuma samun mulkin kai na kai tsaye. Gold Coast. A babban zaben shekarar 1954, ta himmatu wajen shirya mata don CPP, daga baya aka sanya ta a matsayin dan takarar CPP na mazabar Ga Rural, wanda ta ci nasara. Zaben nata ya sanya ta zama mace ta farko a majalisar dokoki ta Gold Coast.[18]

Rubutun kirkire-kirkire[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

Ta kasance marubuciya mai fasaha a cikin tsawon shekaru arba'in — tarin littattafan da aka buga na gajerun labarai sun hada da The Happenings of the Night (1931) The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for Mr Shaw (1934) Anticipation (1947) The Torn Veil (1947) Payment (1947) Invisible Scar (1966) da kuma Evidence of Passion (1969) — har sai da makanta ta rufe shi a shekarar 1972.[3] An sake nazarin aikinta a cikin tarin da suka hada da An African Treasury: Articles, Essays, Stories, Poems (1960) na Langston Hughes, da Daughters of Africa (1992) na Margaret Busby.[19] Tarin aikinta, Selected Writings of a Pioneer West African Feminist (wanda Stephanie Newell da Audrey Gadzekpo suka buga), an buga su a cikin 2004.[20]

Rayuwa ta sirri[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

A watan Satumbar 1933[21] Dove ta auri ɗan siyasa kuma ɗan tarihi J. B. Danquah kuma suna da ɗa, Vladimir.[22] Koyaya, auren "bai tsira daga tsawan lokacin da Danquah ya yi ba a tsakanin shekarun 1934 zuwa 36 lokacin da yake Ingila a matsayin sakataren wakilan kungiyar Gold Coast" kuma ma'auratan sun sake su a tsakiyar 1940s.[9]

Littafin da aka zaɓa[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

  • The Happenings of the Night (1931)
  • The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for Mr Shaw (1934)
  • Anticipation (1947)
  • The Torn Veil (1947)
  • Payment (1947)
  • Invisible Scar (1966)
  • Evidence of Passion (1969)
  • Selected Writings of a Pioneer West African Feminist (edited by Stephanie Newell and Audrey Gadzekpo). Nottingham: Trent Editions, 2004. ISBN 1 84233 097 7.

Gado[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

Dove's satire na George Bernard Shaw's Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932), wanda ta yi wa lakabi da Adventures of the Black Girl a cikin Binciken Mista Shaw, an sanya shi a cikin dakin karatun Burtaniya na 2015-16 a yammacin Afirka: Magana, Alama, Waƙa.[23][24]

Ci gaba da karatu[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

  • LaRay Denzer, "Gender & Decolonization: A Study of Three Women in West African Public Life", in Andrea Cornwall, Readings in Gender in Africa, International African Institute in association with James Currey/Indiana University Press, 2005, pp. 217–224.
  • Audrey Gadzekpo, "The Hidden History of Gender in Ghanaian Print Culture", in Oyeronke Oyewumi (ed.), African Gender Studies: A Reader, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. 279–296.
  • K. A. B. Jones-Quartey, Profiles — First Lady of Pen and Parliament — A Portrait (1975)
  • Stephanie Newell, "White cargoes/black cargoes on the West Coast of Africa: Mabel Dove's A Woman in Jade", Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana: "How to Play the Game of Life", Manchester University Press, 2002, pp. 119–134.
  • Naana J. Opoku-Agyeman, "Recovering Lost Voices: The Short Stories of Mabel Dove-Danquah", in Stephanie Newell (ed.), Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa, London: Zed Books, 1997, pp. 74–75.

Manazarta[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Heroes Of Our Time — Ms Mabel Ellen Dove", Graphic Online (via Modern Ghana), 13 April 2007. (Some sources mistakenly give her date of birth as 2010.)
  2. ↑ Asiedu, Kwasi Gyamfi (16 March 2019). "Africa has forgotten the women leaders of its independence struggle". Quartz Africa (in Turanci). Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Audrey Gadzekpo, "Dove-Danquah, Mabel (1905–84, Ghanaian journalist, short-story writer", in Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly (eds), Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (1994), 2nd edition, Routledge, 2005, pp. 371–72.
  4. ↑ Kofigah, Francis Elsbend, "The Writing of Mabel Dove Danquah" (thesis) Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, 1996.
  5. ↑ Margaret Busby, "Mabel Dove-Danquah", in Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent (1992), 1993, p. 223.
  6. ↑ {{ cite web | url= https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/here-are-7-women-who-played-a-role-in-ghanas-independence-struggle/mc93yhh | titke= 7 women who played a role in Ghana's Independence struggle | access-date=2021-08-28 }{
  7. ↑ Nigel Browne-Davies, "Lieutenant Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon: A Sierra Leonean Medical Officer in the First World War", The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies, Autumn 2014, p. 4, note 8.
  8. ↑ LaRay Denzer, "Gender & Decolonization: A Study of Three Women in West African Public Life", in Andrea Cornwall, Readings in Gender in Africa, International African Institute in association with James Currey/Indiana University Press, 2005, p. 217.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Denzer, "Gender & Decolonization" (2005), p. 218.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Kathleen Sheldon, "Dove Danquah, Mabel (1905/1910–1984)", Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa, Scarecrow Press, 2005, p. 66.
  11. ↑ Ghana, News. "Mabel Dove-Danquah was an exceptional lady" (in Turanci). Retrieved 2020-04-09.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Mabel Dove-Danquah: A Trailblazing Author, Feminist, Politician, Activist & Journalist". www.ghanaweb.com (in Turanci). 17 October 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  13. ↑ "Flagbearers of Ghana: Dr J. B. Danquah (1896–1965)", Ghana Nation, 15 November 2011.
  14. ↑ Mabel Dove, "On Suffrage in West Africa (July 1931), in Maureen Moynagh and Nancy Forestell (eds), Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume 1: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents, University of Toronto Press, 2012.
  15. ↑ Wendell P. Holbrook, "British Propaganda and the Mobilization of the Gold Coast War Effort, 1939–1945", Journal of African History 26, 4, World War II and Africa (1985), p. 354.
  16. ↑ C. L. R. James, "Kwame Nkrumah: Founder of African Emancipation", in Black World, July 1972 (pp. 4–10), p. 7.
  17. ↑ Denzer, "Gender & Decolonization" (2005), p. 220.
  18. ↑ Josephine Dawuni, "Danquah, Mabel Dove", in Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Emmanuel Akyeampong and Steven J. Niven (eds), Dictionary of African Biography, OUP USA, 2012, pp. 165–167.
  19. ↑ "Mabel Dove-Danquah" at Goodreads.
  20. ↑ "A Must Read: Mabel Dove: Selected Writings of a Pioneer West Africa Feminist", Ghana Rising, 6 April 2013.
  21. ↑ Jinny Kathleen Prais, "Imperial Travelers: The Formation of West African Urban Culture, Identity, and Citizenship in London and Accra, 1925–1935" (dissertation), University of Michigan, 2008, p. 253, note 526.
  22. ↑ "Flagbearers of Ghana: Dr J. B. Danquah (1896–1965)", Ghana Nation, 15 November 2011.
  23. ↑ Stephanie Newell and Marion Wallace, "Speaking out: political protest and print cultures in West Africa" Archived 2022-03-12 at the Wayback Machine, British Library Newsletter, 12 October 2015.
  24. ↑ Thembi Mutch, "From Timbuktu to Trinidad: British Library launches dazzling West Africa show", The Guardian, 16 October 2015.

Hanyoyin haɗi na waje[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

  • Kofigah, Francis Elsbend, "The Writing of Mabel Dove Danquah", 6 July 1996. A thesis submitted to the Board of Postgraduate Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of the Degree of Master of Arts in Comparative Literature, 1996.
  • Kwarteng, Francis, "Mabel Dove-Danquah: A Trailblazing Author, Feminist, Politician, Activist & Journalist", GhanaWeb, 17 October 2015.
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