Ajamu X

Ajamu X (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1963 tiŋ yuli booni Huddersfield) nyɛla British nucheeni baŋda, "curator" n-ti pahi "activist".  O nyɛla niriba pam ni mi so ka di nyɛla o anfooninima nucheeni baŋsim tuma zuɣu ka ŋun mali paɣa bomi o paɣa  kpee kurisi ka o tun'shɛŋa nyɛ din jandiri black LGBTQ ninsalinima ban be  United Kingdom (UK) tuma zaŋ niŋ kundi ni.

Piligu biɛhigu 
Ajamu nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1963 tiŋ yuli booni Huddersfield ka o lammba nyɛ Jamaicanima. O yab'doo mini o yab'paɣa nyɛ ban daa kpe England yuuni 1958 ka o lammba daa paai ba yuuni 1962.

Silimiin goli January yuuni shɛli din daa paya na maa o daa nyɛla ŋun yi labi London. O nyɛla bɛ ni daa ti so yuli Ajamu yuuni 1991; di gbunni nyɛla "ninvuɣ so ŋun tɔiri m-bori binshɛli o ni mali dihitabili ni".

 O Tuma 
Ajamu's tuma pam tooi jandi la doo bomi o doo kpɛɛ, paɣa bomi o paɣa kpɛɛ, ka pam mili LGBT. O yaa tooi jandila gban sabila baŋ bɛ di puuni. Ajamu nyɛla ŋun bi saɣi n-ti Jamaica kali zaŋ kpa tabi bobu polo. O nyɛla ŋun yatɔɣa jandi niribi ni laɣdi sham bɛɛ bin bori ta sham. O yatɔɣa maa pam jandila doo bomi o doo kpɛɛ. O bi la din ni 1990s hali ni zuŋɔ. Yuuni 1994, O nyɛla ŋun daa yihi o toli tuma zaŋ kpa doo min doo bɛɛ paɣa min paɣa bom taba ka bi boli Black Bodyscrapes.

Selected exhibitions
 2019 Diasporic Self – Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca, Framer Framed, Amsterdam (14 dec – 17 feb 2019)
 2016 Khalil West and Ajamu - I Am For You Can Enjoy, Contact Theatre, Manchester (4 February - 18 June 2016)
 2013 Fierce - Portraits of Young Black LGBTQ people by Ajamu, Guildhall Art Gallery, London 
 2012 Future Histories, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow
 2011 Queer Self Portraits Now, Fred, London
 2010 Photoshow, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York
 2009 Familiar Strangers, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
 2004 Hidden Histories, Walsall New Art Gallery, England
 1997 Transforming the Crown, Caribbean Cultural Centre, New York.
 1994 Black Bodyscapes, Camerawork, London
 1992 From Where I Stand, Brixton Art Gallery, London

As Curator:
 2016 Curatorial Resident, Visual AIDS, New York 
 2008 Outside Edge: a journey through black British lesbian and gay history, Museum of Docklands, London

Kundivihira

Karimbu nim ￼ yaha
 Bailey, David A., ed. (1995) Ajamu: Black Bodyscapes, Camerawork, London.
 Njami, Simon. (1994) Anthology of African Photography, Edition Revue Noir 
 X, Ajamu, Campbell, Topher, & Stevens, Mary (2010). Love and lubrication in the archives, or rukus!: a Black queer archive for the United Kingdom. Archivaria, 68(68)

External links

 rukus! Federation official website
 rukus! Black Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Cultural Archive  at London Metropolitan Archives
 rukus! Black Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Cultural Archive finding aid  AIM25

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Category:Living people
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Category:Artists from Huddersfield
Category:Black British LGBTQ people
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Category:Black British artists
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Category:British activists
Category:British curators
Category:British gay artists
Category:British LGBTQ photographers
Category:Gay photographers
Category:LGBTQ history in the United Kingdom
Category:LGBTQ people from Yorkshire
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Category:21st-century English LGBTQ people