Funso Aiyejina
Funso Aiyejina |
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| ụdịekere | nwoke  |
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| mba o sị | Naijiria |
| ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya | 1949 |
| Ebe ọmụmụ | Ososo |
| Ụbọchị ọnwụ ya | 1 Julaị 2024 |
| asụsụ ọ na-asụ, na-ede ma ọ bụ were na-ebinye aka | Bekee, pidgin Naịjirịa |
| ọrụ ọ na-arụ | odee ejije, odee uri |
| onye were ọrụ | University of the West Indies |
| ebe agụmakwụkwọ | Acadia University, University of the West Indies, Obafemi Awolowo University |
| oge ọrụ ya (mmalite) | 1967 |
Funso Aiyejina (amụrụ n'afọ 1949 wee nwụọ na Julaị 2, 2024) bụ Onye Naijiria na-ede uri, onye na-ede akụkọ mkpirikpi, onye na'ede egwuregwu na agụmakwụkwọ. Ọ bụbu Dean nke Humanities na Education (ruo mgbe ọ lara ezumike nká na 2014) [1][2] na Prọfesọ Emeritus ugbu a na Mahadum nke West Indies.[3] Nchịkọta akụkọ ifo [4] dị mkpirikpi, The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories, meriri 2000 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book (Africa). [1]
Akụkọ ndụ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]A mụrụ Funso Aiyejina na 1949 na Ososo, Edo State, Nigeria. Ọ bụghị onye Yoruba dịka ọtụtụ ndị na-eche. Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Mahadum Ife (nke bụzi Mahadum Obafemi Awolowo) na Naijiria, Mahadum Acadia, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, na Canada, na Mahadim West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad . [5][6] kụziri ihe karịrị afọ iri na Mahadum Obafemi Awolowo, [1] na kemgbe 1990 na Mahadum nke West Indies na Trinidad & Tobago. N'afọ 1995-96, ọ bụ Fulbright Lecturer na Creative Writing na Mahadum Lincoln na Jefferson City, Missouri. [7] bụ osote onye nduzi mmemme nke NGC Bocas Lit Fest . [1]
Ide ihe
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]E bipụtara uri na akụkọ mkpirikpi nke Aiyejina n'ọtụtụ akwụkwọ akụkọ mba ụwa na akwụkwọ akụkọ gụnyere The Anchor Book of African Stories, Literature Without Borders, Kiss and Quarrel: Yoruba/English - Strategies for Mediation, The New African Poetry, na The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetary (1999), nke a kọwara ya dị ka "otu n'ime ndị kacha mma satirist nke Naịjirịa". [5][4] gụrụ akụkọ ya na egwuregwu ya ma mee ya ihe nkiri na redio na Naịjirịa na England.
O meriri Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize na 1989 maka akwụkwọ uri mbụ ya, A Letter to Lynda and Other Poems (1988). Akwụkwọ akụkọ ifo mbụ ya, The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories (1999), meriri Best First Book (Africa), Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 2000. [8]'ịtụleghachi nchịkọta uri ya nke afọ 2004, I, The Supreme and Other Poems, Jennifer Rahim kwuru, sị: "Akwụkwọ niile nke Aiyejina ruo ugbu a na-egosi mmasị dị ukwuu na akụkọ ihe mere eme, ọdịbendị na ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị nke Africa, ọkachasị obodo ya Naịjirịa. Ihe doro anya bụ mmekọrịta na-apụta na-apụghị ịhụ n'anya na ndị bi na kọntinent ahụ. Ihe odide ya, n'okwu ndị ọzọ, na-egosipụta uri ojii na-agbasawanye.... Dị ka onye si n'èzí / onye nọ n'ime ala na ọdịbendị Caribbean, ọ na-enwe mmasị na ọdịbendụba anya.
Ọ bụ onye nkatọ a na-ebipụta n'ọtụtụ ebe na akwụkwọ na ọdịbendị Africa na West India. Ọ bụ onye a ma ama karịsịa maka ọrụ ya na edemede nke Earl Lovelace">Earl Lovelace, ebe ọ bụ onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke A Place in the World: Essays and Tributes in Honour of Earl Lovelaces @ 70 (2008) na nke Earl Loveloce: Growing in the Dark (Selected Essays) (2003), yana onye dere akụkọ ndụ 2017 Earl Lovelaence (University of the West Indies Press). Aiyejina bụkwa onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke Self-Portrait: Interviews with Ten West Indian Writers and Two Critics (2003) na onye nchịkọta akụkọ (ya na Paula Morgan) nke Caribbean Literature in a Global Context (2006). Egwuregwu ya The Character Who Walked Out On His Author emeela na Trinidad na Tobago, Jamaica na Nigeria. [citation needed]
Ọrụ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Abụ uri
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- Akwụkwọ ozi nye Lynda na uri ndị ọzọ, Saros International Publishers, 1988 (Association of Nigerian Authors Prize, 1989); Lightning Source Inc, 2006,
- I, The Supreme and Other Poems, Kraft Books Limited, 2004,
- (2007) "Let Us Remember", in Gerald Moore: The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-042472-0.
- Njehie nke Nkwupụta, Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2020
Akụkọ dị mkpirikpi
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- The Legend of the Rockhills na akụkọ ndị ọzọ, TSAR, 1999,
Egwuregwu
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- Onye na-eme ihe nkiri nke na-aga n'ihu n'Onye dere ya, Kraft Books Limited, 2020, ISBN 978-918-604-4
Dị ka onye nchịkọta akụkọ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- A Place in the World: Essays and Tributes in Honour of Earl Lovelace, Lexicon Trinidad Ltd, 2008,
- Earl Lovelace: Na-eto n'ọchịchịrị (Selected Essays), Lexicon Trinidad Ltd, 2003,
- Self-Portrait: Ajụjụ ọnụ na ndị edemede iri nke West India na ndị nkatọ abụọ, Mahadum nke West Indies, 2003,
- Thicker Than Water (New Writing from the Caribbean), Peekash Press, 2018,
- "Sport Matters - Echiche sitere na UWI Faculty of Sport, 2019-2020", University of the West Indies Press, 2021,
Dị ka onye nchịkọta akụkọ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- (Na Judy Stone) Na-aga n'ụzọ ziri ezi: Caribbean Stories in Honour of John Cropper, Lexicon Trinidad Ltd, 2010,
- (Na Paula Morgan) Caribbean Literature in a Global Context, Lexicon Trinidad Ltd, 2006,
Akụkọ ndụ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- Earl Lovelace (Caribbean Biography Series), University of the West Indies Press, 2017,
Akwụkwọ edemede
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]"Esu Elegbara: Isi Iyi nke Alter/Native Theory of African Literature and Criticism", Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, 2010,
Ihe odide
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- ↑ The Faculty of Humanities & Education, University of the West Indies.
- ↑ "Dean of a Dream Team", UWI Today, 2015.
- ↑ "Scott and Shakespeare shake up UWI's Campus Literature Week", Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, 14 March 2016.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Book Fair 2007 Participants, 5th Annual St Martin Book Fair.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Authors and Presenters, Alliouagana Festival, Montserrat, 2009.
- ↑ Tsar Publications.. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved on 6 June 2011.
- ↑ "Funso Aiyejina", Bocas Lit Fest.
- ↑ Jennifer Rahim, review of I, The Supreme and Other Poems, Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Spring 2006.