Ladipo Solanke

Ladipo Solanke (an haifeshi a ranar biyu 2 ga watan Satumbar shekarar alif  dari takwas da tamanin da shida  1886 -  ya rasu a shekarata alif ɗari tara da hamsin da takwas 1958) ɗan gwagwarmayar siyasa ne, Kuma haifaffen kasar Najeriya ne, wanda ya yi kamfen kan al'amuran da suka shafi  Afirka ta Yamma.

 Tarihi 
Haihuwa da ilimi

An haife shi a  garin Abeokuta ta jihar Ogun, Najeriya, kamar Oladipo Felix Solanke, ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Fourah Bay da ke Saliyo kafin ya koma karatun koyan aikin Lauya a Jami’ar Landan, a shekarar  1922.Solanke, Oladipo Felix, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

A  kasar Biritaniya, Solanke ya shiga kungiyar Daliban Desan Afirka. A cikin  shekarar 1924, ya rubuta wa Afirka ta Yamma don yin korafi game da labarin a cikin Labarin Maraice, wanda ya yi ikirarin cewa cin naman mutane da bakar sihiri ya zama ruwan dare a kasar Najeriya har zuwa shekarun baya-bayan nan.Jinny Kathleen Prais, "Imperial Travelers: The Formation of West African Urban Culture, Identity, and Citizenship in London and Accra, 1925--1935", PhD dissertation, University of Michigan (2008), pp. 57–59. Zanga-zangar tasa ta samu goyon bayan Amy Ashwood Garvey, wanda ya zama babban aboki, yayin da Solanke ya fara nazarin takardun Ingila don wasu rahotanni na cin mutunci.Hakim Adi, West Africans in Britain: 1900–1960.

 Koyarwa 
Samun kansa cikin talauci, Solanke ya fara koyar da harshen Yarbanci kuma ya fusata da rashin sha'awar al'adun gargajiyar Najeriya tsakanin sauran ɗaliban Najeriya a Landan. A watan Yunin shekarar 1924, ya zama mutum na farko da ya fara watsa shirye-shirye ta rediyo a yaren Yarbanci. Watan da ya biyo baya, tare da karfafawa Garvey, Solanke tare da wasu ɗalibai goma sha biyu suka kafa Progress kungiyar Ci Gaban Nijeriya don inganta rayuwar ɗaliban Nijeriya.

A cikin shekarar 1925, Solanke da Herbert Bankole-Bright sun kafa Studentsungiyar Studentsaliban Afirka ta Yamma (WASU) a matsayin ci gaban zamantakewar jama'a, al'adu da siyasa ga ɗaliban Afirka ta Yamma a Biritaniya. Ya zama Babban Sakataren kungiyar kuma babban mai ba da gudummawa ga mujallar ta, Wasu. A cikin shekarar 1926, ya yi rikodin kiɗa a Yarbanci don Zonophone, kuma a cikin shekarar 1927, ya buga Westasar Afirka ta Yamma a Barungiyar lauyoyi ta Nationsasashe, yana kira ga ’yan Afirka su ji daɗin zaɓen duniya. Solanke ya kuma jagoranci yunƙurin WASU don gina gidan kwanan 'yan Afirka ta Yamma a Landan.

 Afrika ta Yamma
A cikin 1929, ya tafi yawon buɗe ido na tara kuɗi a Yammacin Afirka. Ya shafe shekaru uku yana tafiya, manufarsa
‘Yan Afirka ta Yamma ne suka tallafa musu sannan akasarin jaridu na cikin gida suka bi su. Yayin da yake can, an kafa rassan WASU a kowace kasar da ya ziyarta. Ya kuma sadu da Opeolu Obisanya, sannan ma'auratan suka yi aure.

Komawa Biritaniya
Solanke ya koma Biritaniya da isassun kudade don buɗe masaukin da aka shirya, mai suna "Africa House", kuma ya zama mai kula da ita na farko. Sai dai ya fuskanci suka daga wasu ‘yan kungiyar ta WASU kan zargin kashe makudan kudade a lokacin da yake Afirka.

A cikin shekarun 1930 zuwa 40, Solanke ya sami damar yin amfani da abokantakarsa da wasu mutane da suka hada da Marcus Garvey, Paul Robeson, Reginald Sorensen da Nathaniel Fadipe, wajen kara kaimi ga hadin kan kasashen yammacin Afirka da nuna kyamar wariyar launin fata, tare da daukaka martabar kungiyar WASU. Sa’ad da manoman koko a yankin Gold Coast suka yi ƙoƙari su karya ƙungiyar kamfanoni na Biritaniya, sun rubuta wa Solanke da kansa don ya sami taimakonsa, kuma ya iya shirya babban yaƙin neman zaɓe a Biritaniya, gami da tambayoyi a Majalisar.

A cikin 1944, Solanke ya koma Afirka ta Yamma don tara kudi don gina sabon masauki, kuma bai koma Biritaniya ba sai a 1948. Tafiyar ta sake samun nasara, amma da rashinsa, WASU ta habaka karkashin jagorancin Kwame Nkrumah sai kuma Joe Appiah. Da yake fuskantar rashin amincewar cikin gida, Solanke ya sauka a matsayin Sakatare-Janar a 1949, don yaƙi da tasirin gurguzu a cikin ƙungiyar. Kokarin da ya yi na shirya taron masu adawa da gurguzu don tsayawa takarar shugabancin hukumar ta WASU a shekarar 1951 bai yi nasara ba, kuma a watan Janairun 1953 ya raba gari da kungiyar bayan ta yanke shawarar rufe Africa House, saboda matsalolin kudi. Solanke ya kula da hostel da kudadensa na raguwa, har zuwa mutuwarsa daga cutar daji ta huhu a Landan a watan Satumbar 1958.

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