Mai Musodzi
Elizabeth Maria "Mai" Musodzi Ayema MBE (onye na-aza Musodzi Chibhaga mgbe a mụrụ ya, c. 1885-1952) bụ onye Zimbabwe na-ahụ maka ụmụ nwanyi na onye ọrụ mmekọrịta mmadụ na ibe ya si Salisbury.
Akụkọ ndụ
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]A mụrụ Musodzi Chibhaga n'ihe dị ka 1885 na nso Salisbury (nke bụzi Harare ugbua) na ndagwurugwu Mazowe, nke nne na nna ya bụ Chibhaga na Mazviwana. Nwanne nne ya Shona bụ onye ndú ime mmụọ nke Nehanda Nyakasikana . [1][2] Ya na ụmụnne ya ghọrọ ụmụ enwe nne enwe nna mgbe nnupụisi megide ndị ọchịchị Britain na 1896-1897 gasịrị. Ha na nwanne nna ha biri na Chishawasha. E mere Musodzi baptizim gụọ ya Elizabeth Maria n'afọ 1907. [2] Ọ lụrụ onye uwe ojii BSA nke Zambia Frank Kashimbo Ayema na 1908. [3]
Musodzi nyere aka hiwe Harare African Women's Club na 1938. O duuru otu a, nke na-enye aka n'otu n'otu, na-enye ọrụ na klaasị maka ụmụ nwanyị, ma gbaa mbọ maka ụlọọgwụ ọmụmụ nke nwéré ndị oru ụmụ nwanyị nke Red Cross zụrụ. Musodzi kwadokwara ikike ụmụ nwanyị na ọrụ ya na Native Advisory Board na kọmitii Africa nke National Welfare Society. Ọ rụrụ ọrụ megide nchụpụma gbaa mbọ na-enweghị isi nke ụmụ etinyere ndị oru nwanyị yana nyocha ihere maka Ọrịa a na-ebute site na mmekọahụ.[4] N'afọ 1940, ya na Berita Charlie na Sabina Maponga guzobere otu sodality Chita chaMaria Hosi yeDenga (The sodality of Mary Queen of Heaven). Ọ bụ onye ndú nke otu ahụ ma nweta aha Mai (Nne). [5]
N'ọnwa Eprel afọ 1947, e nyere Musodzi MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) ma soro n'ime ndị ọbịa a họpụtara ka ha rie nri n'ụlọ gọọmentị na Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother na ezinụlọ eze. N'oge nri abalị nke eze, ọ jụrụ ịnọdụ na tebụl echekwara maka ndị ama ama n'Africa, kama ịchọta oche ya n'ala.[6]
Musodzi nwụrụ na 21 Julaị 1952. [4] A gbanwere aha Ụlọ Nzukọ Ntụrụndụ nke Salisbury na Mbare ka ọ bụrụ Mai Musodzi Hall iji sọpụrụ ya.[2] Ọkọ akụkọ ihe mere eme Tsuneo Yoshikuni bipụtara akwụkwọ Elizabeth Musodzi and the Birth of African Feminism in Early Colonial Africa na 2008. [7]
Edensibia
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- ↑ (2004) in Tominaga: Rethinking African History from Women's/Gender Perspectives: Slavery, Colonial Experience, Nationalist Movement and After. Osaka: Japan Center for Area Studies, National Museum of Ethnology. ISBN 978-4-901838-05-4.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chikowero (2015). African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01809-0.
- ↑ Ruzivo (2005). "Elizabeth Musodzi: the Catholic Woman Agent of the Gospel in Harare". Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 31 (2): 63–75.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mlambo (2014). A History of Zimbabwe. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-02170-9.
- ↑ Hinfelaar (2001). Respectable and Responsible Women: Methodist and Roman Catholic Women's Organisations in Harare, Zimbabwe (1919-1985). Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum. ISBN 978-90-239-1153-1.
- ↑ Shutt (2015). Manners Make a Nation: Racial Etiquette in Southern Rhodesia, 1910-1963. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 978-1-58046-520-5.
- ↑ "Review of Elizabeth Musodzi and the Birth of African Feminism in Early Colonial Africa". Mukai – the Jesuit Journal.