Taiye Selasi

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Taiye Selasi
Rayuwa
Haihuwa Landan, 2 Nuwamba, 1979 (44 shekaru)
ƙasa Birtaniya
Karatu
Makaranta Yale University (en) Fassara Bachelor of Arts (en) Fassara
Nuffield College (en) Fassara
Jami'ar Oxford Master of Philosophy (en) Fassara : international relations (en) Fassara
Harsuna Turanci
Sana'a
Sana'a marubuci da mai daukar hoto
Muhimman ayyuka Anansi and the Golden Pot. (en) Fassara
Ghana Must Go (en) Fassara
Kyaututtuka
Fafutuka literary realism (en) Fassara
taiyeselasi.com

Taiye Selasi (an haife tane 2 ga watan Nuwamban shekarar 1979) marubuciyar ƙasar Ghana ce kuma Ba’amerikiya.[1][2] 'Yar asalin Najeriya da Ghana, ta bayyana kanta a matsayin "yar unguwa" Accra, Berlin, New York da Rome.

Rayuwar farko da ilimi[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

Taiye Selasi an haife ta a Landan, kuma ta girma a Brookline, Massachusetts, ita ce dattijon tagwaye mata na Dokta Lade Wosornu, 'yar Ghana, likitan tiyata a Saudi Arabia[3] kuma marubucin wakoki da dama,[4][5] da Dr. Juliette Tuakli, na Al'adun Najeriya, likitar yara a Ghana[6][7] da ta shahara wajen fafutukar kare hakkin yara, ciki har da zama a hukumar United Way. Iyayen Selasi sun rabu lokacin tana jaririya. Ta hadu da mahaifinta na haihuwa yana da shekara 12.[8]

Sunan ta na nufin tagwaye na farko a Yarbawa ta mahaifar mahaifiyarta. Ta canza sunanta sau da yawa; An haife ta tare da sunan mahaifiyarta, sannan ta karɓi sunan uban mahaifinta (Williams), tana da shekaru 12 ta canza sunan nata zuwa na mahaifinta (Wosornu), daga baya ta yanke shawarar ɗaukar sunan laƙabi Tuakli-Wosornu (dukkan iyayenta). Sunaye na ƙarshe), daga baya ta canza sunan sunanta zuwa Selasi, kalma daga yaren Ewe, da ta fassara da “addu’ar amsa” ko kuma “Allah ya ji”.[9]

Selasi ta kammala karatun summa cum laude da Phi Beta Kappa tare da digiri na BA a cikin karatun Amurka daga Yale,[10] kuma ta sami MPhil a dangantakar kasa da kasa daga Kwalejin Nuffield, Oxford.[11] 'Yar'uwarta tagwaye, Yetsa Kehinde Tuakli, likita ce a Amurka. 'Yar Afirka ta farko a cikin kwamitin wasannin nakasassu na kasa da kasa, ta fafata a gasar tsalle-tsalle mai tsayi na 'yan wasan Ghana.[12]

Aiki[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

A cikin 2005 The LIP Magazine ya buga "Bye-Bye, Babar (Ko: Menene Afropolitan?)",[13] Seminal rubutu na Selasi a kan Afropolitans. A cikin "Bye Bye Babar", Selasi ta kwatanta sabon ƴan ƙasashen Afirka; wani babban haɗin gwiwa wanda ya yarda da bambancinsa: "Wataƙila abin da ya fi kwatanta fahimtar Afropolitan shine ƙin ƙaddamarwa; ƙoƙari na fahimtar abin da ke da lafiya a Afirka tare da sha'awar girmama abin da ke da ban mamaki, na musamman."[13] Selasi ba ta neman a san ta a matsayin wanda ta kafa Afropolitanism, "Ta ba da shawarar kada ta yi iƙirarin cewa ta ƙirƙira shi, kuma ta yi watsi da rawar da ta taka a cikin dukan abin da ya biyo baya."[14] Tattaunawar Afropolitanism ta karu bayan rubutun, kuma wannan ya ba da hanya ga masana kamar Simon Gikandi da Achille Mbembe don "ƙara haɓaka"[15] kalmar, Afropolitan, zuwa cikin sanannen akidar da aka yi amfani da ita. A shekarar da ta rubuta makalar, ta rubuta wani wasan kwaikwayo wanda Avery Willis, yayan Toni Morrison ya shirya a wani karamin gidan wasan kwaikwayo.[16]

A cikin 2006 Morrison ya ba Selasi wa'adin shekara guda; ta rubuta "The Sex Lives of African Girls" don saduwa da shi. Labarin, wanda mujallar wallafe-wallafen Birtaniya Granta ta buga a cikin 2011, ya bayyana a cikin Mafi kyawun Gajerun Labarai na Amurka 2012 .[17]

A cikin 2010 Ann Godoff a Penguin Press ya sayi littafin Selasi wanda ba a gama ba. An buga Ghana Must Go a cikin 2013. Diana Evans ce ta yaba da ita a cikin The Guardian,[18] Margaret Busby a cikin The Independent,[19] ta The Economist,[20] da The Wall Street Journal.[21] An zaɓa a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin 10 Mafi kyawun Littattafai na 2013 ta The Wall Street Journal da The Economist, an sayar da shi a cikin ƙasashe 22 kamar na 2014.[22][23][24]

A cikin 2013 an zaɓi Selasi a matsayin ɗayan Granta 's 20 Mafi kyawun Marubutan Birtaniyya na 20[25] kuma a cikin 2014 mai suna Hay Festival 's Africa39 jerin marubutan Afirka na kudu da hamadar Sahara 39 'yan ƙasa da shekaru 40 "tare da iyawa da hazaka. ayyana yanayin adabin Afirka."

Selasi tana yin haɗin gwiwa akai-akai tare da abokan aikin fasaha. A cikin 2012 ta yi haɗin gwiwa tare da mai zane David Adjaye don ƙirƙirar ɗakin karatu na Kogin Gwangju, ɗakin karatu na sararin sama wanda aka gina a cikin 2013 a matsayin wani ɓangare na Gwangju Biennale's Fooly II.[26] Tare da darakta Teddy Goitom, wanda ya kafa Stocktown, Selasi babban mai gabatar da shirye-shiryen Afripedia ce, jerin shirye-shiryen shirye-shirye game da abubuwan kirkire-kirkire na birane na Afirka.[27] Tare da masu samarwa Fernando Meirelles da Hank Levine (City of God), Selasi yana haɓaka Exodus, wani shiri na musamman game da ƙaura na duniya.[28]

A cikin 2013 Selasi ta kasance mai juror a cikin gidan talabijin na gaskiya na Italiyanci Masterpiece akan Rai 3 tare da Andrea De Carlo.[29]

A cikin 2015, Selasi ta fito a matsayin Fitaccen Mawallafi, tana jagorantar taron karawa juna sani, a Jadawalin Marubutan Iceland na shekara-shekara a Reykjavik, Iceland.[30] Har ila yau, ta kasance mai ba da gudummawa ga tarihin New Daughters of Africa (wanda Margaret Busby ta shirya, 2019).[31]

Ayyuka[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

Littattafai[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

Gajerun labarai[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

  • "The Sex Lives of African Girls" (2011)[32]
  • "Driver" (2013)[33]
  • "Aliens of Extraordinary Ability" (2014)[33]
  • "Brunhilda in Love" (2016)[33]
  • "African Literature Doesn't Exist" (2013)[34]

Manazarta[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

  1. Lewis, Tim (22 March 2013). "Taiye Selasi: 'I'm very willing to follow my imagination'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-03-27 – via www.theguardian.com.
  2. Selasi, Taiye (22 March 2013). "Taiye Selasi on discovering her pride in her African roots". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-03-27 – via www.theguardian.com.
  3. "Prof. Lade Wosornu" Archived 2017-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, University of Dammam.
  4. "Lade Wosornu". Amazon. 9 September 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  5. "Prof. Lade Wosornu Compiles His Articles into A Book". The Ghanaian Times. Archived from the original on 23 August 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  6. "Dr. Juliette Tuakli, Child and Reproductive Health, University of Ghana, Legon Archived 2015-10-05 at the Wayback Machine. The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health
  7. "Juliette Tuakli". Jhsph.edu. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  8. "Family matters: how novelist Taiye Selasi came to terms with her very modern family", London Evening Standard, 5 April 2013.
  9. Vitzthum, Virginia (2013-03-15). "The Fascinator: Taiye Selasi". ELLE (in Turanci). Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  10. "The loving spoonful". The Economist. 23 October 2014.
  11. "Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora - Artist-in-Residence February 2020: Taiye Selasi". 9 October 2019.
  12. Virginia Vitzthum, "The Fascinator: Taiye Selasi", Elle, 15 March 2013.
  13. 13.0 13.1 Taiye Selasi, "Bye-Bye, Babar", The LIP Magazine, 3 March 2005.
  14. Bady, Aaron, and Taiye Selasi. "From That Stranded Place." Transition 117 (2015): 148. Web.
  15. Gehrmann, Susanne. "Cosmopolitanism With African Roots. Afropolitanism's Ambivalent Mobilities". Journal of African Cultural Studies 28.1 (2015): 61–72. Web.
  16. Stefanie Cohen, "Growing Up With a Panther Mom", The Wall Street Journal, 28 February 2013.
  17. "Interview: Taiye Selasi", Granta, 10 June 2011
  18. Diana Evans, "Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi – review", The Guardian, 3 April 2013.
  19. Margaret Busby, "Ghana Must Go, By Taiye Selasi" (review), The Independent, 29 March 2013.
  20. "A singular voice", The Economist, 16 March 2013.
  21. Sam Sacks, "An Auspicious How-Do-You-Do", The Wall Street Journal, 1 March 2013.
  22. Molly Fischer, "Penguin Press Buys First Novel with Salman and Toni’s Seal of Approval", New York Observer, 14 June 2010.
  23. "The WSJ Best Fiction of 2013", The Wall Street Journal, 13 December 2013.
  24. "Books of the year: Torrents of words", The Economist, 5 December 2013.
  25. Granta 123: Best of Young British Novelists 4, Spring 2013.
  26. "david adjaye & taiye selasi: gwangju river reading room", designboom, 20 December 2013.
  27. "Afripedia".
  28. "Exodus Movie". Archived from the original on 2016-10-28. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  29. Rachman, Tom (13 November 2013). "Tired Metaphors? Ciao, Contestant!". The New York Times.
  30. "IWR 2015". Iceland Writers Retreat (in Turanci). 2016-06-07. Archived from the original on 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  31. Onyeakabu, Adaobi (12 March 2019), "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Taiye Selasi among 200 female contributors for New Daughters of Africa Anthology", Pulse Nigeria.
  32. "'The Sex Lives of African Girls' by Taiye Selasi". www.litro.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  33. 33.0 33.1 33.2 "Biography Of Taiye Selasi". Media Nigeria (in Turanci). 2018-06-05. Archived from the original on 2021-05-27. Retrieved 2021-05-27.
  34. Selasi, Taiye (1 November 2016). "African Literature Doesn't Exist". Edition (in Turanci and Jamusanci). Berlin: Berliner Ensemble (25). Retrieved 2022-01-20.