Ifeanyi Anthony Menkiti (amụrụ n'ọnwa Ọgọstụ nke afọ 1940 ruo abalị iri na asaa nke ọnwa Juun afọ 2019) bụ onye Naijiria na-ede abụ, ọkà ihe ọmụma, na prọfesọ, tinyere onye nwe ọbá Akwụkwọ Grolier Poetry na Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

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Menkiti na August 2015

Ndụ na ọrụ

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A mụrụ Menkiti na Onitsha, Naịjirịa n'afọ 1940.[1] N'afọ 1961, ọ bịarutere na United States iji gụọ akwụkwọ na Pomona College, ebe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na 1964.[1][3] N'ịgbaso ọmụmụ postgraduate na Mahadum Columbia na Mahadụ New York, Menkiti nwetara PhD na nkà ihe ọmụma na Harvard n'afọ 1974.[7][8] Akwụkwọ edemede ya bụ "nnyocha nke ibu ọrụ otu".[1] Site n'afọ 1974 ọ kụziri nkà ihe ọmụma na Wellesley College na US na-elekwasị anya na onye na nkà ihe ọmụma nke Afrịka.[1]

Menkiti gbalịrị imesi ọdịdị mmekọrịta mmadụ na ibe ya ike, nke gosipụtara n'echiche "Abụ m, n'ihi na anyị bụ".[1] N'ime nke a, ọ gbalịrị iwulite n'echiche ọdịnala ndị Afrịka banyere ịbụ onye nke mmadụ. Dị ka Menkiti si kwuo, "obodo ndị a na-ahụ n'Afrika ọdịnala na-anabata eziokwu a na ịbụ onye bụ ụdị ihe a ga-enweta".[9] Dabere n'echiche a nke mmadụ ịbụ onye, ọnọdụ nke mmadụ ịbụ onye nwere ihe omume ọma ma ọ bụghị ihe mmadụ nwere na-akpaghị aka kama ọ ga-arụ ọrụ site n'omume ziri ezi.[9]

N'ịgbakwunye na ọrụ agụmakwụkwọ ya, Menkiti bụ onye na-ede abụ . N'ikwu okwu banyere mmekọrịta dị n'etiti nkà ihe ọmụma na abụ, o kwuru na "abụ na-akọwa maka nzube nke ndụ, ihe ọ pụtara, dị ka nkà ihe ọmụma".[8]

Bibliography

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Menkiti bipụtara nchịkọta abụ atọ:[8]

  • Nkwupụta
  • Jubilation nke Falling Bodies
  • Altair: Ìhè Na-egbuke egbuke

Edensibia

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Winkler. Ifeanyi Menkiti. Wellesley Magazine. Retrieved on 2 November 2020.
  2. Marquard. "Ifeanyi Menkiti, Wellesley professor who rescued the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, dies at 78 - The Boston Globe", The Boston Globe, June 18, 2019. Retrieved on 11 March 2021.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Abraham. Ifeanyi Menkiti '64, Joe Palca '74 and Rip Rapson '74 Win Blaisdell Distinguished Alumni Award. Pomona College. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved on 2 September 2014.
  4. Ifeanyi Menkiti (en). Wellesley College. Retrieved on 2019-06-19.
  5. Grolier Poetry Book Shop Goes Nonprofit Route
  6. Ifeanyi Menkiti, Grolier Poetry Book Shop Owner, Dies at 79 (en). PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved on 2019-06-19.
  7. Wellesley College. Ifeanyi A. Menkiti. Wellesley College. Retrieved on 3 November 2020.
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Holder. Interview with Philosopher/Poet Ifeanyi Menkiti. The Somerville Times. Retrieved on 3 November 2020.
  9. 9.0 9.1 Ifeanyi (1984). "Person and Community in African Traditional Thought", in Wright: African Philosophy: An Introduction, 3rd, Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America..