Muthoni Likimani

Muthoni Likimani

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ụdịekere	nwanyị
mba o sị	Kenya
ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya	1926
Ebe ọmụmụ	Muranga County
asụsụ ọ na-asụ, na-ede ma ọ bụ were na-ebinye aka	English
ọrụ ọ na-arụ	children's writer, odee akwụkwọ
nnọchiaha nkeonwe	L484

Muthoni Gachanja Likimani (amụrụ 1926) bụ onye ndọrọndọrọ ọchịchị na onye edemede Kenya, onye bipụtala akwụkwọ akụkọ ifo na nke na-abụghị akụkọ ifo, yana akwụkwọ ụmụaka.[1] N'ọrụ ya ọ bụkwa onye mgbasa ozi, onye na-eme ihe nkiri, onye nkuzi na onye mbipụta.[2] Ọ bụ eze nwanyị ịma mma Kenya mbụ, onye Afrịka mbụ hiwere ụlọ ọrụ mmekọrịta ọha na eze na Kenya yana otu n'ime ndị edemede nwanyị mbụ nke obodo ahụ..

Akụkọ ndụ

A mụrụ Muthoni Likimani ma zụlite ya na Kahuhia Mission, Murang'a District, Kenya, nwa nwanyị nke Mariuma Wanjiura na Rev. Levi GochanJa. Nna ya bụ otu n'ime ndị ụkọchukwu Anglican mbụ nke Kenya. Ọ kụziri na Kahuhia Teachers' Training College, tupu ọ gaa n'ihu na-amụ ihe na Britain na Israel, na-etinye aka na mgbasa ozi na mmekọrịta ọha na eze. Ọ gara n'ihu bụrụ otu n'ime ndị inyom mbụ na-emepụta ihe na Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, na-arụ ọrụ na mmemme ụmụ nwanyị na ụmụaka, ma bụrụkwa onye mgbasa ozi na-arụghị ọrụ maka BBC. O guzobere Noni's Publicity, ụlọ ọrụ mmekọrịta ọha na eze nke na-ebipụta akwụkwọ, gụnyere imepụta akwụkwọ akụkọ Women of Kenya .

E bipụtara akwụkwọ akụkọ mbụ ya, They Shall Be Chastised, n'afọ 1974, What Does a Man Want sochiri ya. n'otu afọ ahụ. N'afọ 1985, akwụkwọ ya nke atọ na nke kachasị mkpa pụtara, Passbook Number F. 47927: Women and Mau Mau in Kenya, aha ya na-ezo aka na nọmba njirimara ya n'oge ọgụ Mau Mau. Ọ bụ ọrụ akụkọ ifo nke na-eme ihe nkiri banyere ọrụ ụmụ nwanyị na-arụ na atụmatụ ha nakweere na ndụ ha kwa ụbọchị n'oge ọgụ maka nnwere onwe.

N'afọ 1980, Likimani ghọrọ onye kansụl obodo Nairobi, nke ọ nọ n'ọkwa ahụ ruo mgbe gọọmentị jiri kọmitii obodo dochie kansụl ahụ. E bipụtara akụkọ ndụ ya, Fighting Without Ceasing, n'afọ 2005.

N'afọ 2007, ọ natara onyinye World YWCA Council Award iji kwado idu ndú raara onwe ya nye maka itinye aka ya dị ka onye na-ahụ maka ikike ụmụ nwanyị. N'afọ 2014, a họpụtara ya ka ọ bụrụ onye nnọchi anya udo na Kenya nke International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace (IFLAC).

Ndụ onwe onye

Kikuyu, ọ lụrụ Masai Dr Jason Clement Likimani, onye ọ zutere mgbe ọ bụ onye nlekọta ahụike na Fort Hall (ugbu a Murang'a) District General Hospital. O kwuru, sị: "Ya na nwanne m nwoke, Ngumba, nọ na Mahadum Makerere, ọ na-alọtakwa n'ụlọ. Ọ bụ naanị ya bụ ọkachamara ahụike Africa nyere ohere ịbanye n'ogige ụlọnga iji gwọọ ndị ejidere. N'oge nleta anyị, a naghị ekwe ka m banye n'ogige ahụ. M na-akparịta ụka n'ofe waya gbachiri ma na-ezopụ ma na-edegara ndị ikwu ndị ejidere akwụkwọ ozi. Ọ bụ ezie na ọ bụ ezie na m ghọrọ di m. Ha mụrụ ụmụ anọ.[2] Di ya nwụrụ na 1989.

Ọrụ ndị a họọrọ

• They Shall Be Chastised. Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, 1974. Kenya Literature Bureau, 1991, ISBN 978-9966440945.
• What Does a Man Want? Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1974. Noni's Publicity, 2001, ISBN 978-9966441201
• Passbook Number F. 47927: Women and Mau Mau in Kenya. Basingstoke and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1985, ISBN 978-0333379455. Noni's Publicity, 2001, ISBN 978-9966967206.
• Women of Kenya: In the Decade of Development. Nairobi: Noni's Publicity, 1985.
• Fighting Without Ceasing, Nairobi: Noni's Publicity, 2005, ISBN 978-9966967268.