Nuzo Onoh (an haife shi 22 Satumba 1962) marubuciya ce ƴan Najeriya da Burtaniya. Ta girma ta uku cikin 'ya'ya takwas na marigayi Cif Mrs Caroline Onoh, tsohuwar shugabar makaranta. Ta fuskanci yakin Biafra da Najeriya (1967-70) a matsayin yarinya 'yar gudun hijira[1] kuma tana da shekaru 13, wani fasto na gida ya yi mata yunkurin "kore". Saboda wannan gogewar, a halin yanzu tana ba da shawarar ƙara wayar da kan jama'a game da cin zarafin yara na al'ada a cikin al'ummomin Afirka.[2]

Nuzo Onoh
Rayuwa
Haihuwa 22 Satumba 1962 (62 shekaru)
ƙasa Najeriya
Karatu
Makaranta The Mount School (York) (en) Fassara
Sana'a
Sana'a marubuci

Nuzo Onoh ya halarci makarantar Sarauniya, a Enugu Nigeria, da kuma The Mount School, York, makarantar kwana ta Quaker da ke York, sannan kuma, St Andrew's Tutorial College, Cambridge, Ingila. Onoh ya yi digirin digirgir a fannin shari’a da digiri na biyu a fannin rubutu daga Jami’ar Warwick.

Ita majagaba ce a cikin nau'in ban tsoro na Afirka.[3] Littattafan Onoh The Reluctant Dead (2014) [4] da Unhallowed Graves (2015)[5] duka tarin labaran fatalwa ne da ke nuna ainihin al'adun Igbo, al'adu, imani da camfi a cikin mahallin ban tsoro. Ita kuma marubucin The Sleepless (2016) da Gawar Matattu (2017).[6][7][8] Ayyukan Onoh sun fito a cikin mujallu da yawa kuma, har yau, ita ce kaɗai marubuciya tatsuniyar almara na Afirka da ta fito a kan Starburst, mujalla mafi dadewa na nishaɗin al'ada a duniya.[9][10] An jera ta a cikin littafin tunani na 80 Black women in Horror (Sumiko Saulson, 2017) kuma an haɗa labarunta a cikin litattafai da yawa, ciki har da Black Magic Women Anthology, wanda ke nuna labarun wasu marubutan da aka jera a cikin 80 Black Women in Horror. Labarin nasarar gasarta, Masu gadi, wanda aka bayyana a cikin Nosetouch Asterisk Anthology, Vol 2, (2018) tabbas shine labarin Horror Cosmic na Afirka na farko da aka buga.[11] Har ila yau, ayyukanta sun fito a cikin karatun ilimi, ciki har da "Routledge Handbook of African Literature".[12] Ta kuma yi fice a kafafen yada labarai da dama, inda ta tattauna rubuce-rubucenta na musamman da Horror na Afirka a matsayin nau'i. Ta rubuta bulogi da yawa don Mujallar Mata ta Farko.[13][14] An ambaci Onoh a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin sabbin marubutan ban tsoro na Biritaniya waɗanda ke kawo canji mai kyau game da yadda ake nuna baƙar fata da tsiraru a cikin almara mai ban tsoro.[15]

Onoh ya kuma ba da jawabai da laccoci, ciki har da babbar cibiyar nazarin tsoro ta Miskatonic [16].

Onoh ya yi rubutu game da fatalwa, fatalwowi na Afirka ramuwar gayya tare da kasuwancin da ba a gama ba, kuma an yaba da shi a matsayin "Sarauniyar Tsoron Afirka" [17]. An kwatanta rubuce-rubucenta a matsayin ayyukan "hakikanin sihiri da ban tsoro", suna nazarin "matsayin falsafar da ke bayyana gaskiyar Afirka da 'yan Afirka a cikin duniyar da ke karkata zuwa ga dunbin duniya na yammacin duniya da kuma kawar da tushen Afirka a al'ada.". Rubuce-rubucen da ta yi ya nuna kyawawa da ban tsoro a Afirka, musamman al’adun Igbo kuma ba ta guje wa magance matsalolin munafunci na addini, cin zarafin yara, kashe-kashen al’ada, camfe-camfe masu hatsari, ’yan siyasa masu cin hanci da rashawa, miyagun bokaye da halin da matan da mazansu suka mutu suka takaba suke ciki a halin yanzu. fadin al'adun Afirka, duk suna cikin mahallin ban tsoro. Littafinta mai suna The Sleepless, labarin fatalwa da ke magance cin zarafin yara da kuma mugunyar Yaƙin Biafra, an bayyana shi a matsayin "gaskiya mai ƙarfi na ba da labari mai ban tsoro" kuma a matsayin aikin da "Ya wuce gaskiyar sihiri": "Abin da ya bambanta nau'inta a matsayin 'Tsoron Afirka' shine cikakken bincike na gaskatawar Afirka a kan abin ban mamaki da na ruhaniya, wanda ya bayyana abubuwa da yawa game da 'Kansa na Afirka'".

Onoh yana da 'ya'ya biyu, Candice Onyeama (marubuci kuma darektan fina-finai) [18] da Jija Orka-Gyoh (dalibi).

Manazarta

gyara sashe
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