Simi Bedford
Simi Bedford Yar Najeriya ce wadda ta Sami kyautar Novel mazauniyar Birtaniya. Littafinta mai suna Yoruba Girl Dancing wanda aka wallafa shi a shekarar 1991, labari na wata matashiyar Najeriya wadda aka tura ta zuwa Ingila domin nemo karatu, ya Samu karbuwa sosai Kuma ya zama kanun labari na Shirin BBC Radio 4.[1][2] Littafinta na biyu mai suna, Not With Silver, an wallafa shi ne a shekarar 2007.
 Simi Bedford | |
|---|---|
| Rayuwa | |
| Haihuwa | Lagos,, 1941 (82/83 shekaru) |
| ƙasa |
Birtaniya Najeriya |
| Mazauni | Landan |
| Karatu | |
| Makaranta |
Durham University (en)  |
| Harsuna | Turanci |
| Sana'a | |
| Sana'a |
Marubuci, marubuci da media personality (en) |
| Muhimman ayyuka |
Yoruba Girl Dancing (en) |
Tarihi
gyara sasheAn haifi Bedford a Lagos, Najeriya,[3] iyayen ta sunzo ne daga Sierra Leone.[4] Asalin kakanni ta yan Najeriya ne da suka kubuta daga jirgin ruwan jigilar bayi.[5] Bedford ta kwashe kuruciyar ta a Lagos, kafin a tura ta zuwa karatu a Birtaniya,[6] inda tayi makarantar kwana a lokacin tana shekara shida[7]
Ta karant Lauya a jami'ar Durham University, tayi aiki a kafafen sadarwa a matsayin mai gabatar da shiri a gidan rediyo da talabijin.[7] Living in London, she married and raised three children.[6] She is now divorced from her artist husband, Martin Bedford, but they still maintain a friendly relationship, even sharing space together in a house in Devon.[8]
Rubutu
gyara sasheLittafinta na Yoruba Girl Dancing labarin gaske ne na rayuwar wata yarinya Yar Najeriya da taje karatu Birtaniya,[9] wwanda Francine Prose ya baiyana a jaridar Washington Post an baiyana littafin da kyakkyawan yabo<ref>
Manazarta
gyara sashe- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Simi Bedford: 'Yoruba Girl Dancing' and 'Not With Silver'". Afro Republic. 2 August 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
- ↑ Leese, Peter, Britain Since 1945: Aspects of Identity[permanent dead link], Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, p. 50.
- ↑ Simi Bedford interview on Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4, 25 July 2007. YouTube.
- ↑ "Bedford's 'Complete' Slave Picture". BBC News. 3 September 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Cooper, Brenda (2011). Stories Fly: A Collection of African Fiction Written in Europe and the USA. New Africa Books. p. 60. ISBN 9780864866080.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Simi Bedford", Black British Women Writers.
- ↑ Hodgkinson, Liz (20 July 2015). "Divorced? You Can Be Friends With Your Ex. I Should Know". The Telegraph. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
- ↑ Griswold, Wendy (2000). Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria. Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. pp. 26–27. ISBN 978-0691058290.