Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Najeriya, 7 ga Maris, 1968 (56 shekaru)
ƙasa	Najeriya
Karatu
Makaranta	University of Birmingham ^(en) University of California, Berkeley ^(en) University of Bordeaux ^(en)
Harsuna	Turanci
Sana'a
Sana'a	marubuci, Marubuci da essayist ^(en)
Employers	San Francisco State University ^(en)

Sarah Ladipo Manyika (an haife ta 7 Maris ɗin shekarar 1968) marubuciya ce 'yar asalin Burtaniya- 'yar asalin Najeriya wacce take rubuce-rubucen litattafai, gajerun labarai da kuma makaloli. Ita ce marubuciya guda biyu da aka karɓa sosai, In Dependence (2009) da Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016), kuma yana da aikin bugawa a cikin wallafe-wallafe ciki har da Granta, Transition, Guernica, da OZY, a halin yanzu yana aiki a matsayin Editan Littattafai na OZY.^[1] Ayyukan Manyika kuma yana cikin fasalin 2019 New Daughters of Africa.^[2]

Farkon rayuwa

Sarah Manyika an kuma haife ta kuma ta girma a Nijeriya. Ta kuma zauna a Kenya, Faransa, Zimbabwe, da Burtaniya. Mahaifinta dan Najeriya ne kuma mahaifiyarsa ‘yar Birtaniya ce.^[3] Manyika ta gaji sunan haihuwarta (Ladipo) daga mahaifinta, wanda aka haifa a garin Ibadan (Kudu Maso Yammacin Najeriya) a ƙarshen 1930s. Mahaifinta ya sadu kuma ya auri mahaifiyarta a cikin Burtaniya a cikin shekarun 1960s. Sarah ta kwashe mafi yawan yarinta a Legas da kuma garin Jos a Jihar Filato. Yayinda take matashiya, ta zauna tsawon shekaru biyu a Nairobi, Kenya, kafin dangin ta su koma Burtaniya.

Ayyuka

Manyika ta yi karatu a Jami'o'in Birmingham (UK), Bordeaux (Faransa), da California (Berkeley), inda ta sami Ph.D daga na biyun.^[4] Ta yi aure a Harare, Zimbabwe, a 1994, kuma yanzu tana raba lokacinta tsakanin San Francisco (inda ta koyar da adabi a Jami'ar Jihar San Francisco), London da Harare.

Rubuce-rubucen nata sun hada da kasidu da aka wallafa, takardun ilimi, bitar littattafai da gajerun labarai. Gajeren labarinta mai suna "Mr Wonder" ya bayyana a cikin littafin 2008 Women Writing Zimbabwe.^[5] Littafinta na farko,^[6] In Dependence, asali an buga shi a farko Jaridar Legend, London ce ta buga shi a shekarar 2008,^[7] kuma babbar shagon sayar da litattafai ta Burtaniya ta zabi shi a matsayin littafin da ya fito da shi na watan Black History Month.^[8] A 2009, In ​​Dependence, Cassava Republic ce ta buga shi,^[9] wata jaridar wallafe-wallafen da ke zaune a Abuja, Nijeriya (da kuma na baya-bayan nan, a Burtaniya), tare da wadatattun marubuta waɗanda suka haɗa da Teju Cole da Helon Habila. Da take magana game da shawarar da ta yanke na sa hannu tare da wani mawallafin Afirka, Manyika ta ce: "Na fahimci cewa ta hanyar bayar da haƙƙin duniya ga wani mawallafin Afirka zan iya, a wata ƙaramar hanya, tooƙarin magance rashin daidaiton iko a cikin duniyar da masu tsaron ƙofofin adabi, har ma da abin da ake kira labaran Afirka, suna da tushe a yamma."^[10] A shekarar 2014, kamfanin Weaver Press ya buga In Dependence a kasar Zimbabwe, in da yake wani littafi ne tsayayyen wanda ya dace da shi domin ci gaban Adabin Ingilishi.^[11] Hakanan an gabatar da In Dependence ta hanyar JAMB a Nijeriya don candidatesan takarar da ke zaune a 2017 UTME.^[12]

Littafin na biyu na Manyika, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun, a kan buga shi a cikin bazarar 2016 wasu marubuta da yawa sun amince da shi, gami da Bernardine Evaristo ("Labarin Manyika game da wata tsohuwa 'yar Najeriya ba shi da nutsuwa, yana da wayewa kuma yana faɗaɗa kundin adabin zamani na Afirka zuwa maraba da sabon yanki"),

Aminatta Forna ("kyakkyawa kuma kyakkyawa ce aka kirkira ... Labarin Sarah Manyika yana nuna mutane na gari cikin mafi kyawun su. lifaukakawa!"), NoViolet Bulawayo ("Mai hankali, mai son sha'awa, mai ban dariya, da motsi"), Jamal Mahjoub ("Manyika tana rubutu da babbar murya da nutsuwa, tana haskaka halayenta da wayewar kai"), Peter Orner ("Kyakkyawan, muhimmin sabon labari, kuma wanda zai ci gaba da yin kuwwa a cikin tunanin mai karatu na dogon lokaci bayan"), E. C. Osondu ("wanda ba za a iya mantawa da shi ba ... tunani mai ƙarfi kan rashi, ƙwaƙwalwar ajiya, ƙaura da kadaici. Abubuwan haruffa a cikin wannan littafin zasu kasance tare da ku "), kuma Brian Chikwava ("Wani ƙagaggen labari ne, koyaushe abin mamaki ne").^[13][14] An fassara shi zuwa harsuna da yawa.^[15]

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun an kuma jera shi a cikin Satumban shekarar 2016 don Goldsmiths Prize (tare da littattafai ta Rachel Cusk, Deborah Levy, Eimear McBride, Mike McCormack and Anakana Schofield),^[16][17] "labari na farko na Afirka da aka fara tunanin samun wannan kyautar",^[18] wanda aka kirkireshi don bayar da lada ga almara wanda ya karya tsarin ko ya faɗaɗa damar sabonn littafin. Hakanan an zaba littafin don kyautar California Book Award a cikin labaran almara (tare da ayyukan irin waɗannan marubutan Andrew Sean Greer, Percival Everett, and Viet Thanh Nguyen).^[19] Na farawa don Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun Manyika ta ce: "Na sadu da tsofaffi mata da yawa waɗanda suka yi rayuwa mai launuka iri-iri, amma duk da haka idan ya zo ga almara, ban sami labarai da yawa da ke nuna wannan ba, musamman idan ya zo ga rayuwar baƙar fata mata. Lokacin da ba zan iya samun labaran da zan so karantawa ba, sai in gwada rubuta su da kaina."^[20] Sunan labarin sabon layi ne da aka yarda dashi daga wata waka da Mary Ruefle ta kira "Donkey On".^[21]

Manyika ita ce mai ba da gudummawa ga tarihin shekarar 2019 New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent, edita daga Margaret Busby, shiga cikin abubuwan haɗi.^[22][23]

Rubuce-rubuce marasa almara na Manyika sun haɗa da kasidu na sirri da kuma bayanan zurfin bayanan mutanen da ta haɗu da su, gami da Evan Mawarire, Toni Morrison and Michelle Obama.^[24]

Manyika tana aiki a kan allunan Hedgebrook da Museum of the African Diaspora(MOAD) a San Francisco.^[25] Ta kuma dauki bakuncin jerin bidiyo na OZY, Rubuta,^[26] kuma a yanzu haka ita ce Editan na mujallar.^[27][1] Ta kuma taba zama alkali a gasar adabi, da Etisalat Prize for Literature a 2014^[28] da kuma Goldsmiths Prize a 2020.^[29] Manyika ta gabatar da jerin hirarraki na fim kowane wata don MOAD, wanda ake kira "Conversations Across the Diaspora", kuma baƙunta daga ko'ina cikin duniya sun haɗa Ibrahim Mahama, Jess Cole, Strive Masiyiwa, Tatyana Ali, and Anna Deavere Smith.^[30]

Rayuwar Aure

Ta auri en:James Manyika a Harare, Zimbabwe a shekara ta 1994.^[31][32]

Ayyuka

Litattafai

• In Dependence (Legend Press, 2008; Cassava Republic Press, 2009)^[33]
• Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (Cassava Republic Press, 2016,

Gajerun labarai

• "Mr Wonder" in Women Writing Zimbabwe (Weaver Press, 2008)
• "Modupe" in African Love Stories (Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd, 2006)
• "Girlfriend" in Fathers & Daughters (Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd, 2008)
• "The Ambassador's Wife" a cikin Margaret Busby (edita), New Daughters of Africa (Myriad Editions, 2019)^[34]

Littafin surori

• "Oyinbo" in Prolematizing Blackness (Routledge, 2003)

Zaɓaɓɓun rubutun

• "Coming of Age in the Time of the Hoodie", Guernica, 23 Yuni 2015.^[35]
• "Betting on Africa", Brittle Paper, 28 Maris 2016.^[36]
• "For the Love of Older Characters in Good Books", OZY, 29 Oktoba 2017.^[37]
• "Game of Tomes: The Struggle for Literary Prizes", OZY, 2 Nuwamba 2017.^[38]
• "On Meeting Toni Morrison", Transition, No. 124, Writing Black Canadas (2017), pp. 138–147. Indiana University Press/Hutchins Center for African and African American Research a Jami'ar Harvard.^[39]
• "What James Baldwin Means To Me", Brittle Paper, 4 Maris 2019.^[40]
• "On Meeting Mrs Obama", Granta 146: The Politics of Feeling, 22 Maris 2019.^[41]

Rahoton bincike

• Ph.D. Programs in African Universities: Current Status and Future Prospects. Report to the Rockefeller Foundation. Haɗin gwiwa tare da David Szanton (Jami'ar Berkeley, California, 2002).

Nassoshi

1. Sarah Ládípọ̀ Manyika Archived 2019-07-01 at the Wayback Machine biography at OZY.
2. "Photos from the London Launch of Margaret Busby’s New Daughters of Africa Anthology", Brittle Paper, 9 March 2019.
3. Vanessa Okwara (3 August 2014). "My style is simple and chic - Sarah Ladipo Manyika". New Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
4. "About Sarah Ladipo Manyika", Sarah Ladipo Manyika website.
5. Lawrence Hoba (26 August 2008). "It's all women, passion and skill in Weaver Press's latest anthology". The Zimbabwean. Retrieved 15 February 2009. Via Weaver Press. Archived 2022-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
6. "Legend Press sign San Francisco-based author Sarah Ladipo Manyika". Free Press Release. 4 June 2008.
7. Obi Nwankanam (15 February 2009). "Sarah Manyika's in dependence". Vanguard. Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2009.
8. Interview by Ovo Adagha: "Sarah Ladipo Manyika". African Writing (9). Retrieved 21 November 2014.
9. In Dependence page, Cassava Republic Press.
10. "Interview with Sarah Ladipo Manyika", The Writes of Woman, 2 November 2016.
11. Beaven Tapureta, "Sarah Manyika's debut novel thrills", The Herald (Zimbabwe), 1 April 2015.
12. "JAMB Introduces New Novel For 2017 UTME Candidates which the students enjoy since for the past few years they've been reading The Last Days At Forcados High School a novel that was also published by Cassava Republic press – 'In Dependence'" Archived 2017-04-06 at the Wayback Machine, Nigeria Today, 14 March 2017.
13. Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun at Amazon.
14. "Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s sophomore novel for April 1" Archived 2020-09-26 at the Wayback Machine, James Murua's African Literature Blog, 14 March 2016.
15. "About Sarah Ladipo Manyika", Sarah Ladipo Manyika website.
16. "The full shortlist", The Goldsmiths Prize 2016, Goldsmiths, University of London.
17. Anna Leszkiewicz, "'Erotic dreams about a man half my age': Sarah Ladipo Manyika reveals the value of pleasure", New Statesman, 3 November 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
18. Ainehi Edoro, "Why it Matters that Sarah L. Manyika is on the Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist", Brittle Paper, 10 October 2016.
19. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, "Sarah Manyika Shortlisted For California Book Award", Daily Trust, 1 April 2018.
20. Anna Leszkiewicz, "Sarah Ladipo Manyika: 'Breaking convention often takes courage and is seldom rewarded'", New Statesman, 2 November 2016.
21. Beaven Tapureta, "Manyika launches second book" Archived 2022-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, Bulawayo24, 20 July 2016.
22. Olatoun Gabi-Williams, "After seminal anthology, Busby celebrates New Daughters of Africa" Archived 2023-01-27 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian (Nigeria), 21 April 2019.
23. Adaobi Onyeakagbu, "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Taiye Selasi among 200 female contributors for New Daughters of Africa Anthology", Pulse, 12 March 2019.
24. "Writings: Essays & Articles", Sarah Ladipo Manyika website.
25. "Africa Talks: the global legacy of African women writers", LSE Festival: Shape the World, London School of Economics, 7 March 2020.
26. "Interview with Sarah Ladipo Manyika", Munyori Literary Journal, 8 September 2016.
27. "A Novelist’s Choose on This Year’s Nobel Prize for Literature | POV" Archived 2019-07-01 at the Wayback Machine, Cisco Connections, 6 October 2017.
28. Akintayo Abodunrin, "Quartet announced as judges for 2014 Etisalat Prize" Archived 14 Satumba 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Nigerian Tribune, 20 July 2014.
29. "Sarah Ladipo Manyika is Goldsmiths Prize 2020 judge" Archived 2020-11-29 at the Wayback Machine, James Murua's Literature Blog, 29 January 22020.
30. Elizabeth Gessel, "Conversations Across the Diaspora hosted by Sarah Ladipo Manyika" Archived 2020-11-28 at the Wayback Machine, MOAD, September 17, 2020.
31. Adagha, Ovo. en:"The Sarah Ladipo Manyika interview". African writing (19). Retrieved 21 November 2012
32. Tapureta, Beaven (20 July 2016). en:"Manyika Lauches Second book". Bulawayo 24.
33. In Dependence at Amazon.
34. "New daughters of Africa : an international anthology of writing by women of African descent" at Brown University Library.
35. Sarah Ladipo Manyika, "Coming of Age in the Time of the Hoodie", Guernica, 23 June 2015.
36. Sarah Ladipo Manyika, "Betting on Africa", Brittle Paper, 28 March 2016.
37. Sarah Ládípọ̀ Manyika, "For the Love of Older Characters in Good Books" Archived 2020-11-19 at the Wayback Machine, OZY, 29 October 2017.
38. Sarah Ládípọ̀ Manyika, "Game of Tomes: The Struggle for Literary Prizes" Archived 2020-11-16 at the Wayback Machine, OZY, 2 November 2017.
39. Sarah Ladipo Manyika, "On Meeting Toni Morrison", Transition, No. 124, Writing Black Canadas (2017), pp. 138–147. Indiana University Press/Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
40. Sarah Ladipo Manyika, "What James Baldwin Means To Me", Brittle Paper, 4 March 2019.
41. Sarah Ladipo Manyika, "On Meeting Mrs Obama", Granta 146: The Politics of Feeling, 22 March 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2019.