Catherine Obianuju Acholonu

Catherine Obianuju Acholonu (an haifeta a ranar 26 ga watan  Oktoba a shekara ta 1951 - ta mutu a ranar 18 ga watan  Maris a shekara ta 2014) marubuciya ce 'yar Nijeriya, mai bincike kuma mai rajin siyasa.Umeh, Marie (2011). "Acholonu, Catherine Obianuju". Oxford African American Studies Center. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.48143. ISBN 9780195301731. Retrieved 19 May 2021.

Ta yi aiki a matsayin Babban Mashawarciya ta Musamman (SSA) ga Shugaba Olusegun Obasanjo kan Fasaha da Al'adu, kuma ta kasance mamba ce ta kungiyar Marubutan Najeriya  "Association of Nigerian Authors" (ANA).

 Kuruciya, Ilimi da aure 
An haifi Catherine daga dangin kiristoci Catholica Inyamurai, mahaifanta sune Chief Lazarus Emejuru Olumba da kuma Josephine Olumba da ke rayuwa a kauyen Umuokwara, birnin Orlu.Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku; Gates, Henry Louis (2 February 2012). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. pp. 85–86. ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5.Owomoyela, Oyekan (2008). The Columbia Guide to West African Literature in English Since 1945. Columbia University Press. pp. 56–57. doi:10.7312/owom12686. ISBN 9780231126861. JSTOR 10.7312/owom12686 Itace babba diya acikin 'ya'ya hudu.Otiono, Nduka (29 May 2020). "Catherine Acholonu (1951-2014) The Female Writer as a Goddess"(PDF). Nokoko. 4: 67–89 – via Institute of African Studies.

Ta kammala karatun ta na firamare da sakandare a makarantan "Holy Rosary School", kana daga bisani kuma akai mata aure da Brendan Douglas Acholonu wanda ya kasance likita ne dake aiki a kasar Germany a wancan lokacin.

Catherine daga bisani ta fara karantu a jami'ar  University of Düsseldorf a matsayin dalibar Turanci, daga bisani  ta karanta American literature da kuma Germanic linguistics a shekara ta (1974) inda tayi digiri dinta na biyu a shekara ta alif(1977). A cikin shekara ta alif(1982) ta kammala digirinta na uka a fannin yaren Igbo (Igbo Studies), a yayinda ta zama mace ta farko 'yar Afurka da ta fara kammala karatun Masters' da PhD a jami'ar Dusseldorf dake Germany. Ta halarci taronta na farko a Ibadan a shekara ta gaba akan "Pan Africanism", inda ta gabatar da takaddu hudu akan darasin.

 Aiki 
 Malantaka 
Catherine ta koyar da turanci a kwalejin Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, dake birnin Owerri tun daga shekara ta (1978) sannan ta wallafa littattafai fiye da goma sha shida.

Ta kirkiri AFA  A journal of Creative Writing a shekara ta(1982) wanda shine mujalla na farko dangane da adabin harsunan Afurka. A shekara ta (1986) itace kadai  'yar Najeriya kuma su biyu 'yan Afurka da suka samu halartar shirin "United Nations Expert Group Meeting on 'Women, Population and Sustainable Development: the Road to Rio, Cairo and Beijing'. Gwamnatin Amurka ta zabe ta a matsayin  Fulbright Scholar a shekara ta (1990) a bisa aikin da tayi wajen tattara bayanai akan tushen Inyamurai dangane da Olaudah Equiano, wani shahararren mai haramtawa kuma masukin cinikayyar bayi) wanda ya zamo abun darasi ga sauran kwalejoji. An kaddamar da shirin African American Studies dangane da kokarinta.

Kuma tana cikin wadanda suka samar da "Acholonu Research Center" don bin diddigin tarihin Nahiyar Afurka, wanda ya zamo bincike na farko da aka sanya wa sunan mace a Najeriya.

 Siyasa 
Catherine ta fito takarar shugaban kasan Najeriya a zaben shekara ta (1992) a karkashin jam'iyyar  National Republican Convention inda daga bisani bataci nasara ba.Chuku, Gloria (2009). "Igbo Women and Political Participation in Nigeria, 1800s-2005". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 42 (1): 81–103. ISSN 0361-7882. JSTOR 40282431 A wannan lokaci kuma mijinta shine mataimakin gwmanan jihar Imo daga jam'iyya daya.Osinulu, Clara (1996). Nigerian women in politics, 1986-1993 /. Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. hdl:2027/uva.x006029213

 Ayyuka da Karramawa 
 Rubutu 
Catherine tayi fice a fannin salon magana a Najeriya, daga cikin ayyukanta sun hada da  Heinemann Book of African Female Writers da dai sauransu. Ana la'akari da littafin Afro-Surrealist matuka.

 Littafin "Western and Indigenous Traditions in Modern Igbo Literature" 
Littafi ne da aka gyara daga binciken da tayi a yayin karatun digirin ta na uku wanda Dusseldorf University Press suka wallafa, wanda ya wanzu a jami'oin kasar Germany. Chidi T. Maduka, ya suki aikin da cewa bai da inganci sosai saboda baiyi wani gamsasshen bayani akan rubuce-rubucen Igbo ba, don haka aka soke aikin da cewa ya rasa cikakken bayanai. Har wayau, an sama karancin bayani kan malamai da kuma munanan tawaya.Maduka, Chidi (1989). "Review of Western and Indigenous Traditions in Modern Igbo Literature". Research in African Literatures. 20 (1): 116–119. ISSN 0034-5210. JSTOR 3819093

 The Igbo Roots of Olaudah Equiano 
Littafin ta na farko da tayi bayanin asalin harshen Igbo dangane da tarihin  Olaudah Equiano a Isseke, Ihiala.M'Baye, Babacar (11 February 2010). The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 108. ISBN 978-1-60473-352-5. Har wayau, masana tarihi sun soki aikin sosai musamman ta fuskan salon tarihin da ta ayyana a kundin.Law, Robin (December 2002). "Individualising the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua of Djougou (1854)". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 12: 113–140. doi:10.1017/S008044010200004X. ISSN 0080-4401. S2CID 166059537Rolingher, Louise (1 January 2004). "A Metaphor for Freedom: Olaudah Equiano and Slavery in Africa". Canadian Journal of African Studies. 38 (1): 88–122. doi:10.1080/00083968.2004.10751282. ISSN 0008-3968. S2CID 142600256

A wani nazarin, an soki labarin a matsayin tarihin gizo, da karerayi dangane da tarihin iyalan Equiano.Isichei, Elizabeth (March 1992). "The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African. Edited by Paul Edwards. (Revised edition). Basingstoke and London: Longman, 1989. Pp. xxxviii+186. £4.50 (paperback). - The Igbo Roots of Olaudah Equiano. By Catherine Obianuju Acholonu. Owerri, Nigeria: Ata Publications, 1989. Pp. viii+184. No price given". The Journal of African History. 33 (1): 164–165. doi:10.1017/S0021853700032084. ISSN 1469-5138 A wani nazari na  Research in African Literatures, Paul Edwards  yayi watsi da aikin gaba daya inda yayi ikirarin cewa bai kai ingancin binciken karatun jami'a ba.Edwards, Paul (1990). "Review of The Igbo Roots of Olaudah Equiano". Research in African Literatures. 21 (2): 124–128. ISSN 0034-5210. JSTOR 3819289 Ode Ogede shima ya soki aikin sosai inda ya bayyana cewa wanna daya daga cikin misalan yadda ake canza asalin tarihi don cimma wani buri na daban, ba tare da wani sila na binciken ilimi ba kuma ya nemeta da tayi watsi da sabbin bayanin kan asalin Olaudah Equiano.Ogede, O. S. (1991). "Review of The Igbo Roots of Olaudah Equiano". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 61 (1): 138–141. doi:10.2307/1160281. ISSN 0001-9720. JSTOR 1160281. S2CID 144195302

Christopher Fyfe yayin nazari akan International Journal of African Historical Studies, ya nuna cewa aikinta gudunmawa ne sosai akan ainihin tarihin mutanen Afurka amma duk da haka ya jawo hankali kan suka  Edward yayi wa aikin.Fyfe, Christopher (1990). "Review of The Igbo Roots of Olaudah Equiano". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 23 (4): 744–745. doi:10.2307/219537. ISSN 0361-7882. JSTOR 219537 Erving Beauregard daga jami'ar University of Dayton, ya nuna cewa aiki ne mai kayatarwa sannan ya jinjina mata akan tarihin musamman na kusan shekaru 200 da suka shude."Book reviews". The African Book Publishing Record. 18 (1): 9. 1 January 1992. doi:10.1515/abpr.1992.18.1.7. ISSN 0306-0322.Sabino, Robin; Hall, Jennifer (1 March 1999). "The Path Not Taken: Cultural Identity in the Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano". MELUS. 24 (1): 5–19. doi:10.2307/467904. ISSN 0163-755X. JSTOR 467904

Duk da haka, Catherine tayi watsi da soke-soken inda ta nuna cewa kawai suka ne na adawa.Carretta, Vincent (3 December 2009). "Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo World: History, Society, and Atlantic Diaspora Connections (review)". Research in African Literatures. 40 (4): 183–184. doi:10.2979/RAL.2009.40.4.183. ISSN 1527-2044

 Littafin Motherism : The Afrocentric Alternative to Feminism 
Aiki ne da ya samo asali daga binciken ta na jami'a wanda ya zamo fitaccen aiki akan nazarin jinsi a Afurka. Kuma ya jawo cigaba a fannin ilimin haihuwa a kasashen Turawa.

 Sauran ayyuka 
Abotan ta da Al Gore ne yasa har ta rubuta littafi The Earth Unchained: A Quantum Leap in Consciousness: don maida martani ga Al Gore akan sake binciko tarihin asalin Afurka da ya bace da kuma danganta shi wajen magance matsalolin duniya. Catherine tayi ikirarin cewa ta sama bayanai ta hanyar wahayi daga ubangiji, kuma ta kwashe tsawon kwanaki 14 tana rubutawa.

Littafin ta na They Lived Before Adam: Pre-Historic Origins of the Igbo ya lashe lambar yabo na "Flora Nwapa Award for Literary Excellence" da kuma "Philis Wheatley Book Award" a taron Harlem Book Fair, na shekara ta 2009.
Littafin The Gram Code of African Adam: Stone Books and Cave Libraries, Reconstructing 450,000 Years of Africa's Lost Civilizations wanda yayi bayani kan tsaffin duwatsun Ikom monoliths, wanda tayi ikirarin cewa yayi sanadiyar salon rubuta a zamunan Afurka na baya. Sannan kuma malamai kadan suka duba littafin ba kafin a wallafa shi.Lombaard, Christoffel (8 February 2017). "Mystifying moments in Bible interpretation: An exploration of some implied backgrounds to three kinds of unusual Bible readings". HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies. 73 (3): 8. doi:10.4102/hts.v73i3.3495. ISSN 2072-8050

Kuma sannan ba'a san ayyukan ba sosai a kasashen waje.

 Ra'ayi 
Catherine tana da ra'ayin zamantakewa na dawainiya da juna kuma tana adawa da ra'ayin 'yancin mata (feminism).Phillips, Layli (19 September 2006). The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought. Routledge. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-135-91974-0. Bata yarda da ra'ayin makarantun Alice Walker, Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa da sauran makarantun da suke da ra'ayi akan 'yancin mata, tare da sukan su da bata tarbiya ta hanya halarta madugo da sauran al'adu wanda basu da alaka da ainihin al'adun matan Afurka.Edwin, Shirin (2016). "Connecting Vocabularies". Connecting Vocabularies:: A Grammar of Histories, Politics, and Priorities in African and Islamic Feminisms. Privately Empowered. Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction. Northwestern University Press. pp. 35–76. ISBN 978-0-8101-3368-6. JSTOR j.ctt22727xh.7"The making of a gendered nation in postcolonial West African video, film, and literatures - ProQuest": 182. ProQuest 304707802 Ta nuna cewa tattalin arziki bane ke jawo martaba a Afurka amma ba jinsi ba."African Women as Victims or Heroines?: Obiwuruotu Women's Music, Gender, Marriage, and Culture among the Igbo in Nigeria - ProQuest": 15. ProQuest 1984625281 Haka zailka ra'ayinta na uwantaka "mothernism", na haihuwa da raino - na jawo hankali akan haihuwa da raino da mata ke yi, kuma yana bunkasa biyayya ga maza ba wai gaba da gaba da maza ba da sunan taimakekeniya tsakanin maza da mata ba.Etim, Eyoh (1 January 2020). Nyambi, Oliver (ed.). ""Herstory" versus "history": A motherist rememory in Akachi Ezeigbo's The Last of the Strong Ones and Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun". Cogent Arts & Humanities. 7 (1): 1728999. doi:10.1080/23311983.2020.1728999Korieh, Chima J.; Okeke-Ihejirika, Philomina E. (19 November 2008). Gendering Global Transformations: Gender, Culture, Race, and Identity. Routledge. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-135-89385-9. Wannan ra'ayi nata ya samu murtani daga kungiyar matan feminism na zamani.Azuah, Unoma N. (1 June 2005). "The Emerging Lesbian Voice in Nigerian Feminist Literature". Matatu. 29–30 (1): 129–142. doi:10.1163/18757421-029030009. ISSN 1875-7421Umer, Marie Linton (26 April 1997). "Children's Literature in Nigeria Revolutionary Omissions". Matatu. 17–18 (1): 191–206. doi:10.1163/18757421-90000224. ISSN 1875-7421

Catherine ta nuna kawo addinin musulunci a matsayin mulkin mallaka, wanda ya jawo watsewar tsarukan mulkin Afurka kuma ya rage armashin rayuwa ga mata.

 Mutuwa 
Catherine ta mutu a ranar( 18 ) ga watan Mayu a shekara ta (2014) daga cutar koda a lokacin tana da shekaru (62)."Nigeria: Celebrated Scholar, Acholonu Dies At 63". allAfrica.com. 19 March 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2014.

 Martaba 
National Council of Women Societies (NCWS) ta lissafo ta acikin matan Najeriya da suka sama daukaka a shekara ta (2017)."Catherine Obianuju Acholonu (1951-2014) - ProQuest". ProQuest 1518976685 An zabi littattafan ta a wajen karatun makarantun sakandare da jami'oi na Najeriya, da kuma wajen nazarin al'adun Afurka a sassan jami'oin kasashen Amurka da kuma Turai.

 Bibilyo 
Wakoki
 "Going Home"
 "Spring's Last Drop"
 "Dissidents"
 "Harvest of War"
 "Other Forms of Slaughter"

Collections
 The Spring's Last Drop, 1985
 Nigeria in the Year 1999, 1985
 Recite and Learn – Poems for Junior Primary Schools, 1986
 Recite and Learn – Poems for Senior Primary Schools, 1986

Wasanni da Drama
 Trial of the Beautiful Ones: a play in one act, Owerri, Nigeria: Totan, 1985—based on the Igbo ogbanje myth.
 The Deal and Who is the Head of State, Owerri, Nigeria: Totan, 1986
 Into the Heart of Biafra: a play in three acts, Owerri, Nigeria: C. Acholonu, 1970

Kasidu da kuma Labaran Gaskia
 Western and Indigenous Traditions in Modern Igbo Literature , 1985.
 Motherism, The Afrocentric Alternative to Feminism, 1995.
 The Igbo Roots of Olaudah Equiano, 1995, revised 2007.
 The Earth Unchained: A Quantum Leap in Consciousness: a reply to Al Gore, 1995
 Africa the New Frontier – Towards a Truly Global Literary Theory for the 21st Century. Lecture Delivered to the Association of Nigerian Authors annual Convention, 2002.
 The Gram Code of African Adam: Stone Books and Cave Libraries, Reconstructing 450,000 Years of Africa's Lost Civilizations, 2005
 They Lived Before Adam: Pre-Historic Origins of the Igbo – The Never-Been-Ruled (Ndi Igbo since 1.6 million B.C.), 2009. Winner of the USA-based International Book Awards (2009) in the Multi-cultural non-fiction category.
 The Lost Testament of the Ancestors of Adam: Unearthing Heliopolis/Igbo Ukwu – The Celestial City of the Gods of Egypt and India, 2010
 Eden in Sumer on the Niger: Archaeological, Linguistic, and Genetic Evidence of 450,000 Years of Atlantis, Eden and Sumer in West Africa, 2014

Littattafai da ta wallafa

 The Igbo Roots of Olaudah Equiano: An Anthropological Research Jan 1, 1989
 The Deal and Who is the Head of State
 The Spring's Last Drop
 Nigeria in the year 1999 (TOT Series)
 Into the Heart of Biafra (TOP Series)
 Trial of the Beautiful Ones

 Babin Mukalai
 (with Joyce Ann Penfield), "Linguistic Processes of Lexical Innovation in Igbo." Anthropological Linguistics. 22 (1980). 118–130.
 "The Role of Nigerian Dancers in Drama." Nigeria Magazine. 53.1 (1985). 33–39.
 "The Home of Olaudah Equiano – A Linguistic and Anthropological Research", The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 22.1 (1987). 5–16.
 "L'Igbo Langue Litteraire: Le Cas du Nigeria." [Literary Igbo Language: The Case of Nigeria.] Notre Librairie: Revue du Livre: Afrique, Caraibes, Ocean Indien. 98 (Jul–Sept 1989). 26–30.
 "Mother was a Great Man." In The Heinemann Book of African Women's Writing. Ed. Charlotte H. Bruner. London: Heinemann, 1993. 7–14.
 "Motherism: The Afrocentric Alternative to Feminism." Ishmael Reed's Konch Magazine. (March–April 2002).


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