Sueddie Qgema
Su'ur Su'eddie Vershima Agema bụ onye Naijiria na-ede uri, onye nchịkọta akụkọ na onye nchịkwa edemede.[1] Ọ bụkwa onye na-akwalite omenala. Onye na-ede akwụkwọ nchịkọta abụ abụọ, Weta Ụlọ Casket anyị: Akụkọ onye ekwesịghị ịkọ, [2] na Ụlọ Equals Holes: Tale of Exile, nchịkọta akụkọ mkpirikpi, The Bottom of Another Tale and NLNG Nigeria prize for books 2022 họpụtara akwụkwọ ahọpụtara - Nchekwa na Oku nke Mmiri.[3][4] Agema bụ onye isi oche gara aga nke Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) (Benue State Chapter) yana onye otu Council, National Teen Authorship Scheme.[5]
Oge ọ malitere
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Ọ na-ekwu, "Ekpughere m akwụkwọ akụkọ mgbe m dị obere site n'aka nna nke debere ọdịnala akụkọ ifo ọnwa, zuru oke na ọrụ ime ihe, egwu obodo, na egwu omenala. E nwekwara otu nne zụtara aha akwụkwọ edemede kachasị mma nke Africa, site na Chinua Achebe ruo onye ọ bụla na-ede akwụkwọ a ma ama nke Heinemann."[1]
Mmụta
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]AgụAgụmakwụkwọ mbụ nke Agema mere n'etiti Abuja na steeti Benue wee mechaa na nzere bachelọ na bekee na Benue State University, Makurdi na nzere masta na Development Studies (Geography) sitere na mahadum ahụ. N'agbata 2018 na 2019, n'okpuru nkuzi Chevening a na-achọsi ike nke British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, ọ nwetara nzere nke abụọ, oge a na Education International and Development na Mahadum Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. Mgbe ọ nọ n'ebe ahụ, ọ bụ onye isi oche, onye nnọchiteanya ụmụ akwụkwọ maka Ụlọ Akwụkwọ nke Education na Social Works ma bụrụ onye isi oche nke ndị edemede Africa [Society]. N'ime oge ahụ, ọ gara ogbako na nzukọ ọmụmụ ihe gụnyere ndị ama ama dịka Kwame Dawes na Nick Makoha.[1] Ụfọdụ ndị nkụzi na ndị ọkachamara a ma ama bụ Agema kwetara dị ka isi akụkụ nke njem mmụta ya na ide ihe na-emetụta ndị mmadụ gụnyere Maria Ajima, Moses Tsenongu, Andrew Aba, Hyginus Ekwuazi, Mairead Dunne, Sean Higgins, nwunye ya, Agatha, Daisy Odey, T. J. Benson, Romeo Oriogun, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Chimamanda, Habzi Ngolon, Chimamanda Ngolon, Chimamanda Ngolon, Chimamanda Ngolon, Chimamanda Ngolon Ogabidu,[2] nakwa ụmụnne ya, Gabriel Agema, Taver na Sever Ayede.[3]
Ọrụ ọkachamara
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Akwụkwọ na edemede
Akwụkwọ mbụ nke Agema, Weta ozu anyị n'ụlọ: Akụkọ mmadụ ekwesịghị ịkọ ka e bipụtara na 2012.[1] N'afọ 2014, o bipụtara mkpokọta uri, Home Equals Holes na The Bottom of Another Tale, ma ọrụ mkpuchi nke enyi ya na onye ọrụ ya, onye ode akwụkwọ fantasy, Eugene Odogwu mere.[2] N'afọ 2019, o bipụtara akwụkwọ ụmụ ya, Ozugbo n'elu akụkọ obodo, nke gbadoro ụkwụ na akụkọ ifo ndị Afrịka echepụtara echetara na omenala ịkọ Africa. Edepụtara akwụkwọ a maka ihe nrite ụmụaka nke Nigeria Authors’s 2018.[3] Agema nwere ọrụ na-aga n'ihu nchịkọta akụkọ mkpirisi, Tales of the Abroad site na Confam Africana na nchịkọta uri. Ihe odide ya nwere mmetụ omenala ya n'ime ha, ihe ọ na-ekwukarị maka ya[4]
Onye Nchịkwa Akwụkwọ
Agema etinyela aka na nchịkwa akwụkwọ na ọkwa dị iche iche na-arụsi ọrụ ike kemgbe 2008 mgbe ọ ghọrọ odeakwụkwọ ego nke Association of Nigerian Authors (Benue State Chapter). O bilitere site n'ọkwa na isi na 2014 ghọrọ onyeisi oche. Ọ rụkwara ọrụ dị iche iche na steeti na mba nke otu ahụ wee bụrụ onye Council nke National Teen Authorship atụmatụ, onye so na mgbakọ mba ahụ mere na Makurdi, Benue steeti n'okpuru onye isi oche Charles Iornumbe, na ndị ọzọ.[1].
N'afọ 2013, Agema tọrọ ntọala SEVHAGE Literary and Development Initiative, ọrụ ebere ama ama nke na-aga n'ihu n'ịkwalite akwụkwọ, ọgụgụ na atụmatụ mmepe ndị ọzọ. N'afọ 2015, Agema chepụtara Ememme SEVHAGE mbụ na Makurdi nke nwere ndị odee bịara dịka Romeo Oriogun, T. J. Benson, Innocence Silas Sharamang, Celina Kile na Amu Nnadi.[1]
N'ọnwa Julaị 2020, Agema kpọkọtara ma hazie Benue Book and Arts Festival (BBAAF), [1] ọgbakọ agụmagụ nke mba nke bịara ọtụtụ narị ndị odee, ndị na-agụ akwụkwọ na ndị ọrụ mmepe na Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria. Ndị ọbịa gụnyere Servio Gbadamosi, Ahmed Maiwada, Chiedu Ezeana, Isaac Attah Ogezi, Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Bash Amuneni, TJ Benson, Innocence Silas Sharamang, Daisy Odey, Bizuum Yadok, Amara Chimeka, Alexander Ochogwu, Sam Ogabidu, Paul Ugah, Yom Ogabidu, Paul Ugah, Charles Tersser Samnugi, Umar Baki, Mike Charles Izam Baki, Miker J. Orsterga, Oriakụ Beatrice Shomkegh, David Onotu, Helen Teghtegh, Iorliam Shija, Oriakụ Rosemary Hua, Felicity Jila na Mimi Werna. Ọ bụkwa nke pụtara ìhè bụ nwunye First Lady nke Benue State, Dr. Eunice Ortom nakwa kọmishọna, ndị isi ọchịchị na Benue State, n'etiti ọtụtụ ndị ọzọ.[3]
Emere mmemme a na mmekorita ya na Eunice Spring of Life Foundation, ọrụ ebere nke First Lady of Benue steeti, Dr. Eunice Ortom[1][2] onye onye ọrụ mmemme, Tine Agernor bụ onye na-arụkọ ọrụ ogologo oge nke Agema. Ndị ọzọ jikọrọ aka na ọrụ ahụ gụnyere Mahadum Sussex, Gender na Environmental Risk Reduction Initiative, Arojah Concept, MacArthur Foundation, na Adinya Arise Foundation, n'etiti ndị ọzọ. Ọ bụ Prọfesọ Moses Tsenongu na akara edemede bụ Chuma Nwokolo kwuru okwu ndị a.[4] Ndị otu mmemme ahụ gụnyere Otene Ogwuche dị ka onye isi mmemme, nwunye Agema, Dr. Agatha Agema, Jennifer na Nathaniel Aduro, Andrea Vanen Kwen, Oko Owoicho, Torkwase Igbana, Luper Aluga, Anointing Biachi, Debbie Iorliam, Ephraim Chirgba, Carl Ayede, na [5]
E mere mbipụta 2020 nke Benue Book and Arts Festival na Makurdi, Benue State na Disemba 2020 na-elekwasị anya na isiokwu nke ime ihe ike metụtara mmekọahụ na okike na ime ihe ike ndị ọzọ.[1] Mbipụta 2021 lekwasịrị anya na 'Bridges Beyond Borders: Arts Beyond the Conventional' ma mee ya na Mahadum Benue State. 2022 hụrụ mmeghachi omume nke emume ahụ na ọtụtụ emume izu ụka na okwu atọ dị mkpa site n'aka Prọfesọ Dul Johnson, Hyginus Ekwuazi na Sule Egya, akụkụ ụwa, ihe nkiri, asọmpi ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị na asọmpi okwu slam nke Hafsat Abdullahi mechara merie.[2][3]
Agema's SEVHAGE na mmekorita ya na òtù ndị dị ka Konya Shamsrumi, meghere usoro In Conversations na Abuja ma gosipụta ndị edemede a ma ama Chuma Nwokolo na onye na-ede uri a na-asọpụrụ, Niyi Osundare . [4]
Onye Ọrụ Mmepe na Onye Nnyocha
A họpụtara Agema ka ọ bụrụ Black History Month / Project Curator maka Students Union na Mahadum Sussex, Falmer, United Kingdom ọkwá o nwere site na 2019-2020.[5][6] N'ọnọdụ ahụ, ọ haziri "ihe omume gụnyere, nke na-anabata na nke na-elekwasị anya na ụmụ akwụkwọ". Ụfọdụ n'ime ihe omume ndị ahụ gụnyere mmekọrịta ya na ndị otu Chevening / Sussex na Minista na-ahụ maka Azụmaahịa nke Botswana, Bogolo Kenewendo, ihe ngosi na Pravini Baboeram nke Prọfesọ Gurminder K. Bhambra duziri, na ihe nkiri nke MANDELA: A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM nke gosipụtara onye edemede ihe nkiri ahụ, onye mmeri, William Nicholson, ndị ọzọ.[7][8][9]
Ọ bụ onye isi nchịkwa / onye isi nchịkọta akụkọ na SEVHAGE Publishers, na onye isi otu / onye nchọpụta na SEV HAGE Literary and Development Initiative. Ọ bụ onye mmekọ na School of Education and Social Works, Mahadum Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom . [10]
Agema arụwokwa ọrụ dị iche iche na ụlọ ọrụ mmepe na akwụkwọ edemede na ikike dị iche iche. Ọ nọgidere bụrụ akụkụ nke Sussex Writes, otu ndị edemede / ụmụ akwụkwọ bi na Mahadum Sussex ma bụrụ nke Dr. Emma Newport duziri. N'ọrụ a, ọ bụ akụkụ nke akwụkwọ edemede na ụlọ akwụkwọ dị iche iche n'ime na gburugburu Brighton n'akụkụ ndị ọrụ ibe ya dịka Jennifer Emelife na Monica Agnes Sylvia . [11][12]
Onyinye
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]Na mgbakwunye na ihe ndị ọzọ a rụzuru na ihe nrite, Agema nwere nchịkọta abụ abụọ a ma ama, Home Equals Holes: Tale of an Exile (Joint Winner, Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Poetry 2014 and nominated, Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature 2018, [13] na Bring our casket home: Tales one should't tell (Longlisted for the Association of Nigarian Authors Award for Poetary 2012).[14] N'afọ 2019, e depụtara akwụkwọ ụmụaka Agema, Once Upon a Village Tale maka Association of Nigerian Authors Children's Literature Prize . [15]
Nchịkọta akụkọ mkpirikpi ya, The Bottom of another Tale ka edepụtara maka Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Prose 2014 na Abubakar Gimba Prize for Short Stories 2015. E nyere Agema ihe nrite Mandela Day Short Story Prize na 2016 site na akụkọ ya, 'Washing the Earth' ebe uri ya, 'Tales one should not tell often' depụtara maka Saraba / PEN Nigeria Poetry Prize 2013. Ọrụ Agema na nchịkọta akụkọ mkpirikpi na-aga n'ihu, Tales of the Abroad by a Confam Africana ka edepụtara maka Association of Nigerian Authors / Abbubakar Gimba Prize for Short Stories 2019 . [16][17]
Agema has been included annually in EGC's Top 50 Contemporary Poets who rocked Nigeria since 2013. Notably, he was listed on Nigerian Writers Award's 100 Most Influential Nigerian Writers Under 40 (2017 and 2018).[18] He has also been long-listed (final 11)[19][20][21] and was a finalist for the NLNG Nigeria Prize for literature 2022.[22][23][24] His book, Memory and the Call of Water also won the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize 2022 while an unreleased in-progress short story collection A Maze of Fading Touches, was first runner-up for the 2022 ANA/Abubakar Gimba Prize for Short Stories.[24]
Edensibia
[dezie | dezie ebe o si]- ↑ I am out to do my bit for arts in nigeria-sueddie-vershima-agema (22 November 2020).
- ↑ anote (2022-07-09). Palm wine, poetry slam, prizes: Glimpses from Benue Book and Arts Festival 2022 (en-US). Anotearthub. Archived from the original on 2023-01-02. Retrieved on 2023-01-02.
- ↑ Chikelu (2022-07-02). Hafsat Abdullahi Wins BBAAF 2022 Poetry Slam Contest (en-US). Retrieved on 2023-01-02.
- ↑ Rapheal (2022-12-17). Radiance of master griot: Abuja stands still for Osundare (en-us). The Sun Nigeria. Retrieved on 2023-01-02.
- ↑ Sussex SU Appoint S.Agema as Black History Month Curator. Sussex Blackhistory (2019-09-20). Retrieved on 2021-02-03.
- ↑ Sussex SU Appoints Curator for Black History Month. Sussex. Archived from the original on 2022-01-19. Retrieved on 2021-02-03.
- ↑ People haven't believed that I am a government minister (2019-11-06).
- ↑ Diary Screening. Sussex Black History (2019-10-22). Retrieved on 2021-02-03.
- ↑ University of Sussex Black History Month (en-GB). University of Sussex Black History Month. Retrieved on 2022-11-07.
- ↑ Admin (2020-12-28). A Conversation with Su'ur. Su'eddie Vershima Agema (en-US). Libretto Publishers Ltd. Archived from the original on 2022-09-01. Retrieved on 2022-11-07.
- ↑ Walters. Lockdown Live: bringing students together across continents. The University of Sussex. Retrieved on 2023-01-02.
- ↑ sussexwrites (2020-11-24). Lessons from COVID-19: Education for Inclusiveness (en). Sussex Writes Blog. Retrieved on 2023-01-02.
- ↑ Murua (2018-11-05). Longlist for Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature 2018 announced. Writing Africa. Retrieved on 2024-05-11.
- ↑ Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa (en-US). The Lumina Foundation. Retrieved on 2022-12-23.
- ↑ ANA releases shortlist for 2018.
- ↑ ANA Literary prize 2019 (5 October 2019).
- ↑ Winners of ANA Literary Prize 2019. ANA. Archived from the original on 2021-02-08.
- ↑ NWA releases 100 most influential Nigerian writers under 40. Black Pride Magazine (29 December 2018).
- ↑ NLNG receives entries for literature prize, releases longlist (en-US). Punch Newspapers (2022-07-08). Retrieved on 2022-09-01.
- ↑ Adeniyi (2022-07-10). NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2022 longlist released (en). Daily Trust. Retrieved on 2022-09-01.
- ↑ Oboh (2022-07-08). Ifowodo, Oriogun, nine others make longlist for NLNG $100,000 literature prize (en-GB). Vanguard News. Retrieved on 2022-09-01.
- ↑ Murua (2022-08-26). NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature 2022 shortlist announced. (en-GB). Writing Africa. Retrieved on 2024-05-11.
- ↑ Rapheal (2022-10-08). Su'eddie Agema: My shortlisted Nigeria Prize for Literature entry is a mix of styles (en-us). The Sun Nigeria. Retrieved on 2022-11-07.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 KSR's Su'eddie Vershima Agema wins the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize 2022 (en-US). Konya Shamsrumi. Retrieved on 2023-01-02.