Wuraola Esan

Cif Wuraola Adepeju Esan (1909–1985). Ta kasance malamar Nijeriya, mai son ilimin mata da siyasa. Ta hade burinta na siyasa da ta wata sarauniyar gargajiya ta zama Iyalode na Ibadan . Roberta Ann Dunbar. Reviewed Work(s): "People and Empires in African History: Essays in Memory of Michael Crowder" by J. F. Ade Ajayi; J. D. Y. Peel; Michael Crowder, The Journal of African History, Vol. 34, No. 3, 1993.

 Tarihin rayuwa 

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
Wuraola Adepeju Esan an haife ta a shekarar 1909 a garin Calabar. Iyayenta ba su sami horon ilimine yamma ba duk da cewa sun inganta karatun ilimin yamma ga yaransu. Esan ta halarci Kwalejin 'Yan mata ta Baptist, Idi Aba, Abeokuta kafin ta ci gaba zuwa United Missionary College don samun difloma kan horar da malamai. Daga 1930 zuwa 1934, ta kasance malama mai koyar da ilimin cikin gida a wata makarantar horas da mishan a Akure . Daga baya ta auri Victor Esan a 1934 kuma sun ɗan zauna a Legas . Bayan 'yan shekaru sai ta koma garinsu na Ibadan.Kathleen E. Sheldon. Historical Dictionary of Women In Sub-Saharan Africa, Scarecrow Press, 2005, p 74. 

 Harkar siyasa 
Kodayake wuraren ilimantarwa da mata ke dasu a lokacin mulkin mallaka sun iyakance. A shekarar 1944, ta kafa Makarantar Grammar School ta Jama'ar Ibadan a Molete,  don ilimantar da mata fannoni daban-daban ciki har da ilimin gida. Koyaya, ra'ayoyinta da ra'ayoyin siyasa masu zuwa ba sa yin kira da a faɗaɗa hangen nesa game da matsayin mata a cikin babbar al'umma. Karen Tranberg Hansen. African Encounters with Domesticity, Rutgers University Press, 1992, p 133.

A cikin shekarun 1950, ta shiga siyasa ta bangaranci kuma tana memba a reshen mata na ƙungiyar Action. Kodayake mata sun kasance mahimman kayan aiki don samun ƙuri'a, kaɗan ne aka ba su ikon hukuma da nauyin jam'iyya duka. Koyaya, Esan ta sami damar tsallakewa zuwa mukamai don zama mace ta farko a Majalisar Dokokin Najeriya, a matsayin sanata da aka zaba daga Ibadan Yamma. Ta kuma kasance memba na kafa ƙungiyar ƙungiyoyin Mata ta Nationalasa. A shekarar 1975, ta dauki matsayin Iyalode kuma ta sami mukamin babban sarki a Ibadan. Roberta Ann Dunbar. Reviewed Work(s): "People and Empires in African History: Essays in Memory of Michael Crowder" by J. F. Ade Ajayi; J. D. Y. Peel; Michael Crowder, The Journal of African History, Vol. 34, No. 3, 1993.

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