Kate Abbam
Kate Victoria Teiba Abbam, onye amụrụ ma kpọọ Ewura Ekua Badoe (1934–2016) bụ onye nta akụkọ Ghana, onye nchịkọta akụkọ na onye ndụmọdụ gbasara ụmụ nwanyị na mmepe obodo.[1][2] Abbam wepụtara magazin ụmụ nwanyị mbụ nke Ghana, Obaa Sima (The Ideal Woman), n'afọ 1971.[3]
Ndụ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]A mụrụ Awura Ekuwa Badoe n'abali iri abụo na anọ n'onwa Ọktoba afọ 1934 na Cape Coast .[4] E nyere ya agụmakwụkwọ Ndị otu Kraịst, ma kpọgharịa ya Kate Victoria, na Saint Monica's Convent, Cape Coast, Mmofraturo School na Kumasi, A. M. E. Zion School na Cape Coast na Wesley Girls' High School na Cape Coast.[5] O ritere uru agụmakwụkwọ n'efu nke gọọmentị Ghana iji gụọ maka nzere na Home Science na Queen Elizabeth College na London.[6] Ọ gụrụ General Science na Mahadum nke Ghana, Legon .[2] Ọ lụrụ Emmanuel Atta Abbam n'afọ 1964.[7] Site na 1964 ruo 1969 ọ rụrụ ọrụ na Food Research Institute, na-enyocha nri na ngwaahịa si na nri.[2]
Kate Abbam wepụtara Obaa Sima dị ka magazin kwa ọnwa n'afọ 1971. Aha ahụ, ka o mechara kọwaa n'ajụjụ ọnụ, na-nrụtụ aka na "nwanyị na-arụsi ọrụ ike ma na-enyere obodo ya aka ... a na-akpọ ụmụ nwanyị 'obaa sima' mgbe ha kwuru onwe ha site na mbọ ha - ọ bụ ngosipụta nke nwanyị ọdịnala. "[3] Abbam bụ onye nwere ihe nke onwe, onye nchịkọta akụkọ na onye isi na-enye aka na magazin ahụ. Dị ka ihe atụ, e dere akwụkwọ akụkọ ya bụ Beloved Twin n'ebe ahụ n'afọ 1971-2.[8]
Na Julaị 1972, di Abbam nwụrụ, ma hapụrụ ya obere ụmụaka. O dere banyere mmeso ana emeso ya dị ka nwanyị di ya nwụrụ anwụ, nke ezinụlọ di ya chụpụrụ, na Obaa Sima.[5] N'afọ 1975, e nyere ya onyinye nke United Nations iji gaa Nzukọ Ụwa nke Ụmụ nwanyị na Mexico City, na-enyocha ebe ụmụ nwanyị Ghana nọ na mgbasa ozi.[9][10] N'afọ 1993, e mere ya Ezenwanyi bụ Queenmother nke Anona Clan na Ekumfi Eyisam na mpaghara etiti, na-eme ya Nana Assanwa Ewudziwa Gyampaafor II.[2]
Ọ nwụrụ na Mee 2016. Nwa nwanne ya nwanyị bụ onye edemede Adwoa Badoe .
Ọrụ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- Sweet Deceit
- (as Awura-Ekuwa Badoe) Beloved Twin, Scorpio Books Ghana, 1973
- (as Ekuwa Teima Badoe) I Shall Return: romance from the woods. 1975
Edensibia
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- ↑ Kate Abbam passes on, Modern Ghana, 10 May 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Edmund Quaynor, Editor of 'Obaa Sima' magazine passes on, Ghana News Agency, 28 July 2016.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jane Bryce (2016). ""Who No Know Go Know": Popular Fiction in Africa and the Caribbean", in Simon Gikandi: The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean Since 1950. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-976509-6.
- ↑ Ralph Uwechue, Africa Who's Who, 1991. p.7
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Esi Sutherland-Addy. "'Kate Abbam, On Widowhood'", in Esi Sutherland-Addy: Women Writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel. Wits University Press.
- ↑ Africa Woman, 1975
- ↑ The World Who's Who of Women, Melrose Press, 1982, p.1
- ↑ Stephanie Newell, Making up Their Own Minds: Readers, Interpretations and the Difference of View in Ghanaian Popular Narratives, Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 67, No. 3 (1997), p. 398
- ↑ Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Cable 1975ACCRA03748, 13 June 1975.
- ↑ Abbam, 'Ghanaian Women in the Mass Media, unpublished paper written for International Women's Year, 1975. Cited in Margaret Gallagher, Unequal Opportunities: The Case of Women and the Media, UNESCO, 1981.