Funso Aiyejina
Funso Aiyejina (amụrụ n'afọ 1949 wee nwụọ na Julaị 2, 2024) bụ Onye Naijiria na-ede uri, onye na-ede akụkọ mkpirikpi, onye na'ede egwuregwu na agụmakwụkwọ. Ọ bụbu Dean nke Humanities na Education (ruo mgbe ọ lara ezumike nká na 2014) [1][2] na Prọfesọ Emeritus ugbu a na Mahadum nke West Indies.[3] Nchịkọta akụkọ ifo [4] dị mkpirikpi, The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories, meriri 2000 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book (Africa). [1]
Funso Aiyejina |
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| ụdịekere | nwoke  |
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| mba o sị | Naijiria |
| ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya | 1949 |
| Ebe ọmụmụ | Ososo |
| Ụbọchị ọnwụ ya | 1 Julaị 2024 |
| asụsụ ọ na-asụ, na-ede ma ọ bụ were na-ebinye aka | Bekee, pidgin Naịjirịa |
| ọrụ ọ na-arụ | odee ejije, odee uri |
| onye were ọrụ | University of the West Indies |
| ebe agụmakwụkwọ | Acadia University, University of the West Indies, Obafemi Awolowo University |
| oge ọrụ ya (mmalite) | 1967 |
Akụkọ ndụ
dezieA mụrụ Funso Aiyejina na 1949 na Ososo, Edo State, Nigeria. Ọ bụghị onye Yoruba dịka ọtụtụ ndị na-eche. Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Mahadum Ife (nke bụzi Mahadum Obafemi Awolowo) na Naijiria, Mahadum Acadia, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, na Canada, na Mahadim West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad . [5][6] kụziri ihe karịrị afọ iri na Mahadum Obafemi Awolowo, [1] na kemgbe 1990 na Mahadum nke West Indies na Trinidad & Tobago. N'afọ 1995-96, ọ bụ Fulbright Lecturer na Creative Writing na Mahadum Lincoln na Jefferson City, Missouri. [7] bụ osote onye nduzi mmemme nke NGC Bocas Lit Fest . [1]
Ide ihe
dezieE bipụtara uri na akụkọ mkpirikpi nke Aiyejina n'ọtụtụ akwụkwọ akụkọ mba ụwa na akwụkwọ akụkọ gụnyere The Anchor Book of African Stories, Literature Without Borders, Kiss and Quarrel: Yoruba/English - Strategies for Mediation, The New African Poetry, na The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetary (1999), nke a kọwara ya dị ka "otu n'ime ndị kacha mma satirist nke Naịjirịa". [5][4] gụrụ akụkọ ya na egwuregwu ya ma mee ya ihe nkiri na redio na Naịjirịa na England.
O meriri Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize na 1989 maka akwụkwọ uri mbụ ya, A Letter to Lynda and Other Poems (1988). Akwụkwọ akụkọ ifo mbụ ya, The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories (1999), meriri Best First Book (Africa), Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 2000. [8]'ịtụleghachi nchịkọta uri ya nke afọ 2004, I, The Supreme and Other Poems, Jennifer Rahim kwuru, sị: "Akwụkwọ niile nke Aiyejina ruo ugbu a na-egosi mmasị dị ukwuu na akụkọ ihe mere eme, ọdịbendị na ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị nke Africa, ọkachasị obodo ya Naịjirịa. Ihe doro anya bụ mmekọrịta na-apụta na-apụghị ịhụ n'anya na ndị bi na kọntinent ahụ. Ihe odide ya, n'okwu ndị ọzọ, na-egosipụta uri ojii na-agbasawanye.... Dị ka onye si n'èzí / onye nọ n'ime ala na ọdịbendị Caribbean, ọ na-enwe mmasị na ọdịbendụba anya.
Ọ bụ onye nkatọ a na-ebipụta n'ọtụtụ ebe na akwụkwọ na ọdịbendị Africa na West India. Ọ bụ onye a ma ama karịsịa maka ọrụ ya na edemede nke Earl Lovelace">Earl Lovelace, ebe ọ bụ onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke A Place in the World: Essays and Tributes in Honour of Earl Lovelaces @ 70 (2008) na nke Earl Loveloce: Growing in the Dark (Selected Essays) (2003), yana onye dere akụkọ ndụ 2017 Earl Lovelaence (University of the West Indies Press). Aiyejina bụkwa onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke Self-Portrait: Interviews with Ten West Indian Writers and Two Critics (2003) na onye nchịkọta akụkọ (ya na Paula Morgan) nke Caribbean Literature in a Global Context (2006). Egwuregwu ya The Character Who Walked Out On His Author emeela na Trinidad na Tobago, Jamaica na Nigeria. [citation needed]
Ọrụ
dezieAbụ uri
dezie- Akwụkwọ ozi nye Lynda na uri ndị ọzọ, Saros International Publishers, 1988 (Association of Nigerian Authors Prize, 1989); Lightning Source Inc, 2006,
- I, The Supreme and Other Poems, Kraft Books Limited, 2004,
- (2007) "Let Us Remember", in Gerald Moore: The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-042472-0.
- Njehie nke Nkwupụta, Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2020
Akụkọ dị mkpirikpi
dezie- The Legend of the Rockhills na akụkọ ndị ọzọ, TSAR, 1999,
Egwuregwu
dezie- Onye na-eme ihe nkiri nke na-aga n'ihu n'Onye dere ya, Kraft Books Limited, 2020, ISBN 978-918-604-4
Dị ka onye nchịkọta akụkọ
dezie- A Place in the World: Essays and Tributes in Honour of Earl Lovelace, Lexicon Trinidad Ltd, 2008,
- Earl Lovelace: Na-eto n'ọchịchịrị (Selected Essays), Lexicon Trinidad Ltd, 2003,
- Self-Portrait: Ajụjụ ọnụ na ndị edemede iri nke West India na ndị nkatọ abụọ, Mahadum nke West Indies, 2003,
- Thicker Than Water (New Writing from the Caribbean), Peekash Press, 2018,
- "Sport Matters - Echiche sitere na UWI Faculty of Sport, 2019-2020", University of the West Indies Press, 2021,
Dị ka onye nchịkọta akụkọ
dezie- (Na Judy Stone) Na-aga n'ụzọ ziri ezi: Caribbean Stories in Honour of John Cropper, Lexicon Trinidad Ltd, 2010,
- (Na Paula Morgan) Caribbean Literature in a Global Context, Lexicon Trinidad Ltd, 2006,
Akụkọ ndụ
dezie- Earl Lovelace (Caribbean Biography Series), University of the West Indies Press, 2017,
Akwụkwọ edemede
dezie"Esu Elegbara: Isi Iyi nke Alter/Native Theory of African Literature and Criticism", Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, 2010,
Ihe odide
dezie- ↑ The Faculty of Humanities & Education, University of the West Indies.
- ↑ "Dean of a Dream Team", UWI Today, 2015.
- ↑ "Scott and Shakespeare shake up UWI's Campus Literature Week", Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, 14 March 2016.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Book Fair 2007 Participants, 5th Annual St Martin Book Fair.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Authors and Presenters, Alliouagana Festival, Montserrat, 2009.
- ↑ Tsar Publications.. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved on 6 June 2011.
- ↑ "Funso Aiyejina", Bocas Lit Fest.
- ↑ Jennifer Rahim, review of I, The Supreme and Other Poems, Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Spring 2006.