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Simi Bedford
mmádu
ụdịekerenwanyị Dezie
mba o sịObodoézè Nà Ofú, Naijiria Dezie
aha ezinụlọ yaBedford Dezie
ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya1941 Dezie
Ebe ọmụmụLagos Dezie
asụsụ ọ na-asụ, na-ede ma ọ bụ were na-ebinye akaBekee Dezie
ọrụ ọ na-arụode akwukwo ifo, odee akwụkwọ, onye mgbasa ozi Dezie
ebe agụmakwụkwọDurham University Dezie
Ebe obibiLondon Dezie
Ọrụ ama amaYoruba Girl Dancing Dezie
nnọchiaha nkeonweL484 Dezie

Simi Bedford bụ onye na- ede akwụkwọ akụkọ Naijiria dabere na Britain. Akwụkwọ mpụta mbụ ya n'afọ 1991 Yoruba Girl Dancing (1991), akwụkwọ akụkọ gbasara ndụ nwata nwanyị Naijiria ezigara England ka ọ nweta agụmakwụkwọ ụlọ akwụkwọ nkeonwe, tụlere nke ọma na mbipụta ma bụrụ isiokwu nke mkpirisi BBC Radio 4 . [1] E bipụtara akwụkwọ akụkọ ya nke abụọ, Ọ bụghị na Silver, n'afọ 2007.

Akụkọ ndụ

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A mụrụ Bedford na Legoosi, Nigeria, [2] nye nne na nna si Sierra Leone bịa ebe ahụ. [3] Nna nna ya ochie si Naijiria wee napụta ha n’ụgbọ ohu. [4] Bedford nọrọ na nwata ya na Legoosị tupu ezigara ya akwụkwọ na Britain, [5] ebe ọ gara ụlọ akwụkwọ ụlọ akwụkwọ site na afọ isii. [6]

Ọ gụrụ Iwu na Mahadum Durham, ma mesịa rụọ ọrụ na mgbasa ozi, gụnyere dịka onye na-eweta redio na onye nyocha telivishọn. [6] N'ịbụ onye bi na London, ọ lụrụ ma zụlite ụmụ atọ. [5] Ugbu a, ọ gbara alụkwaghịm na di ya na-ese ihe, bụ Martin Bedford, ma ha ka na-enwe mmekọrịta enyi na enyi, ọbụna na-ekerịta ohere ọnụ n'otu ụlọ dị na Devon . [7]

Edemede ya

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Akwụkwọ akụkọ mpụta mbụ nke Bedford bụ nwa agbọghọ Yoruba na-agba egwu bụ ihe gbasara onwe ya, na-akọ ahụmịhe nke agụmakwụkwọ nwa agbọghọ Naijiria na Britain, [8] nke Francine Prose kọwara na nyocha Washington Post dị ka: “[b] edere nke ọma… ozugbo acerbic na mmegharị., na-egbu mgbu na-akwụwa aka ọtọ maka ọnụ ahịa ọpụpụ na mgbanwe." [9] Akara akụkụ ise nke Yoruba Girl Dancing (nke Margaret Busby, nke Adjoa Andoh gụrụ na David Hunter mepụtara) ka agbasasara n'akwụkwọ BBC Radio 4 's n'oge ụra na October 1991. [10] Ewepụtara akwụkwọ akụkọ a n'afọ 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa . [11] [12]

Akwụkwọ akụkọ nke abụọ Bedford, Ọ bụghị na Silver (2007), bụ akụkọ ifo akụkọ ihe mere eme, na-elekwasị anya na etiti narị afọ nke 18 West Africa, ịgba ohu na aghụghọ ụlọ ikpe. [13] N'ịdabere na akụkọ nna ochie nke onye edemede ya, Ọ bụghị na Silver pụrụ iche n'ime akwụkwọ gbasara ịgba ohu n'igosi ndụ ndị mmadụ n'Africa tupu ha agbao ohu. [4] Onye na-enyocha Spectator ’s kwubiri, sị: “Akwụkwọ a na-akwụwa aka ọtọ enweghị ihe ndetu ụgha ma ọ bụ nke mmetụta uche, ọ nweghị ihe mara mma. A na-akụziri onye agha ojii chere ihe ize ndụ a na-atụghị anya ya ihu ka ọ chetụ n'echiche nke kacha njọ, 'Lee agụ n'anya.' Simi Bedford na-eme nke ahụ. Ọrụ ịhụnanya nke nwere obi ike na nke na-adịghị ahụkebe." [14]

Akwụkwọ akụkọ

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  • Nwanyị Yoruba na-agba egwu, London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1991,  ; Mandarin, 1991.  .
  • Ọ bụghị na Silver, London: Chatto & Windus, 2007,  ; Vintage (akwụkwọ akụkọ), 2008,  .

Edensibia

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Njikọ mpụga

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  1. Hodapp, James, "The Proto-Afropolitan Bildungsroman: Yoruba Women, Resistance, and the Nation in Simi Bedford's Yoruba Girl Dancing", The Global South, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2016, pp. 130–149.
  2. Leese, Peter, Britain Since 1945: Aspects of Identity, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, p. 50.
  3. Simi Bedford interview on Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4, 25 July 2007. YouTube.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Bedford's 'Complete' Slave Picture", BBC News, 3 September 2007. Retrieved on 4 February 2016.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Cooper (2011). Stories Fly: A Collection of African Fiction Written in Europe and the USA. New Africa Books, 60. ISBN 9780864866080. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Simi Bedford", Black British Women Writers.
  7. Hodgkinson. "Divorced? You Can Be Friends With Your Ex. I Should Know.", The Telegraph, 20 July 2015. Retrieved on 3 February 2016.
  8. Griswold (2000). Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria. Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology, 26–27. ISBN 978-0691058290. 
  9. Prose, Francine (27 September 1992), "England through young African eyes", Washington Post.
  10. "Listings", Radio Times, Issue 3539, 23 October 1991, p. 93.
  11. Busby, Margaret (9 March 2019), "From Ayòbámi Adébáyò to Zadie Smith: meet the New Daughters of Africa", The Guardian.
  12. New Daughters of Africa contributors, Myriad Editions.
  13. Dabydeen. "Not With Silver, by Simi Bedford", The Independent, 30 August 2007. Retrieved on 3 February 2016.
  14. Durrant, Digby, "Pity the oppressed; fear the oppressed", The Spectator, 7 November 2007.