Obiwu

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Obioma Paul Iwuanyanwu (an haife shi a shekara ta 1962) wanda aka fi sani da Obiwu, marubuci ne kuma farfesa a Najeriya-Amurka. Ya tsira daga Kisan kare dangi na Igbo a Najeriya (1966-1970), kuma yana koyar da wallafe-wallafen duniya da ka'idar mahimmanci a Sashen Humanities a Central State University.

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An haifi Obiwu ne a Umuahia, babban birnin Jihar Abia a kudu maso gabas Najeriya. Iyayensa, Ichie Njoku Iwuanyanwu da Lolo Igbeaku Iwuanyanwu, Katolika ne kuma suna gudanar da kasuwancin otal da gidan cin abinci. Rikicin tashin hankali da ya ɓarke a Najeriya tare da kisan gilla a Arewacin Najeriya (1966) da Biafran War (1967-70). An kama su a cikin bombardment na Umuahia da jiragen abokan gaba na Najeriya suka yi, an tilasta wa iyalin Obiwu su tsere daga birnin a 1968 zuwa garinsu na kakanninsa na Umueze II, Ehime Mbano, a Jihar Imo ta yanzu har zuwa karshen yakin. Yana da shekaru uku lokacin da kisan kare dangi na Najeriya ya fara a kan Mutanen Igbo, kuma hudu lokacin da yakin basasa ya ɓarke.[1]

Wadannan rikice-rikice, wadanda suka yi ikirarin kimanin rayuka miliyan uku, [2] sun shafi iyalinsa sosai kuma sun bar ra'ayi mara kyau a kan Obiwu. Kamar dubban sauran yara tsakanin shekaru daya zuwa biyar, Obiwu ya sha wahala daga tasirin kwashiorkor, sakamakon toshewar Gwamnatin Najeriya game da shigo da abinci da kayan agaji zuwa Biafra.[3][4]

Ya ci gaba da karatun harshen Ingilishi da adabi a Jami'ar Jihar Imo (yanzu Abia State University). Ya kammala karatu tare da girmamawa a shekarar 1986, tare da kananan yara a Tarihi da Harshe. Don shekara guda bayan digiri na National Youth Service, ya koyar a Makarantar Sakandare ta Gwamnati a Madagali, wani gari na iyaka a ƙarƙashin jerin Dutsen Mandara tsakanin Arewacin Najeriya da Arewacin Kamaru.

A shekara ta 1990, Obiwu ya sami digiri na biyu daga Jami'ar Jos tare da rubutun kan litattafan George Orwell da Wole Soyinka . Daga nan aka dauke shi a Jami'ar Jos a matsayin malami a Sashen Ingilishi inda ya koyar da shayari, wasan kwaikwayo, fiction, da rubuce-rubuce masu kirkiro. A lokacin da yake a Jami'ar Jos, Obiwu ya buga littattafai biyu: Rituals of the Sun (waƙoƙi) da Igbos na Arewacin Najeriya (bincike na farko).

A shekara ta 1997, Obiwu ya koma Amurka don ci gaba da karatun digirinsa a Jami'ar Syracuse, daga baya ya sami digirinsa na PhD a Turanci da Nazarin rubutu.[5] A shekara ta 2002, ya fara koyarwa a Sashen Humanities a Jami'ar Jihar Tsakiya (CSU) a Wilberforce, Ohio.[6][7] A shekara ta 2005, ya sake mayar da hankali ga Cibiyar Rubuce-rubuce ta CSU, kuma a wannan shekarar an nada shi kocin kungiyar CSU wacce ta lashe kofin kusa da na karshe a gasar zakarun kasa ta Honda Campus All-Star Challenge a Orlando, Florida . [8][9] Wasu daga cikin tsoffin ɗalibansa, kamar marubucin Helon Habila, sun ci gaba da yin aiki mai ban sha'awa.[10]

Obiwu co-edita ne kuma mai ba da gudummawa ga The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo . "Nuna nuna wadataccen bambancin al'adu da ilimi [...kuma] sun bambanta a cikin hanyoyin bincike, rubutun [wanda ke cikin littafin] an haɗa su cikin burinsu na bincika sabbin hanyoyin ka'idoji, sake ƙarfafa tattaunawar game da yadda ake karantawa da nazarin litattafan Afirka".[11]

Obiwu a halin yanzu yana zaune a Xenia tare da matarsa, Ifeyinwa, da yaransu.[12]

Manazarta[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

  1. ↑ "Dr. Obiwu Iwuanayanwu Reads at SUNY Oneonta | The State Times". 29 October 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Nossiter, Adam (1 November 2012). "'There Was a Country,' by Chinua Achebe". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 December 2015. The architects of Biafra were correct in their frustration with the Nigerian government, which did not intervene as thousands of Ibos were massacred...Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed. As many as 6,000 a day starved to death once the federal government blockaded the ever diminishing Republic of Biafra. But Ojukwu refused to give up. The final death toll was estimated at between one and three million people.
  3. ↑ "Challenges to the Health of Children in the 21st Century". MSF USA. 13 June 2000. Archived from the original on 26 December 2015. Retrieved 25 December 2015. We were founded in 1971by a group of French journalists and doctors. The doctors had worked for the Red Cross during the Biafra war, and were outraged at the fact that IHL prevented the Red Cross from speaking out against what was effectively a state policy of forced starvation and migration. . For many, silence has long been confused with neutrality, and has been presented as a necessary condition for humanitarian action.
  4. ↑ Akubuiro, Henry (22 May 2007). ""I Regret Nigeria Has Given Me Nothing But Insistent Pain From Childhood" – Obiwu". AfricanWriter.com (in Turanci). Retrieved 25 December 2015. “I solemnly regret that Nigeria has given me absolutely nothing but an insistent pain from my childhood experience of kwashiorkor in mid-twentieth century,” he tells Sunday Sun online from Ohio, USA.
  5. ↑ "African Books Collective: OBIWU". www.africanbookscollective.com. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "Central State University". Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "Alumni & Placement - English Graduate Organization". sites.google.com. Archived from the original on 25 January 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  8. ↑ Kirk, Scott. "The Gold Torch :: Online News :: Writing Center". www.goldtorchnews.com. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  9. ↑ Okonkwo, Rudolf Ogoo. "News -- Greene County honors Obiwu". naijanet.com. Archived from the original on 24 April 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  10. ↑ Ogezi, Isaac Attah (9 September 2009). "The Making of Habila's 'Waiting For An Angel' – A Review". AfricanWriter.com (in Turanci). Retrieved 24 December 2015. As University undergraduates, their fanatical love for literature endeared them to their lecturers such as Obiwu who, in his poetry collection Rituals of the Sun, referred to Habila and Kan as his “literary soul-mates” in his acknowledgments.
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  12. ↑ http://www.oac.state.oh.us/search/writers/Writer.asp?ID=459
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