Stella Thomas

Stella Jane Thomas (daga baya Stella Marke) (an haife ta a shekarar ta alif dari tara da shida 1906 - ta mutu a shekara ta alif dari tara da saba'in da hudu 1974) yar kabilar Yoruba Nijeriya lauya a kasar Saliyo.  Ta sami digiri na lauya daga jami'ar Oxford kuma a shekarar 1943 ta zama mace ta farko da ta fara yanke hukunci a Najeriya.

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haifi Stella Thomas a cikin shekarar 1906, a cikin Lagos, Nijeriya, yar Peter John Claudius Thomas, wani dan kasuwar Saliyo da ke zaune a Lagos. Mahaifinta shi ne dan Afirka na farko da ya shugabanci kungiyar ’Yan Kasuwa ta Legas. Emeka Keazor, "Notable Nigerians: Stella Thomas" , NSIBIDI Institute (4 November 2014). Ta halarci Makarantar tunawa da Annie Walsh a Freetown, Saliyo, "makarantar sakandare mafi tsufa ga 'yan mata a Afirka ta Yamma."  Dan uwanta Peter Thomas ya zama matukin jirgin sama na farko na Afirka ta Yamma da aka ba da izini a cikin Sojan Sama a lokacin Yakin Duniya na II. Wani dan’uwan ta Stephen Peter Thomas, shi ne Babban Alkalin Kotun farko na yankin Mid-West.
Yayin da ta karanci aikin lauya a Oxford kuma ta kasance memba na Middle Temple a Landan, tana aiki tare da kungiyar Dalibai Afirka ta Yamma, kuma mamba ce ta kafa kungiyar Hadin Kan Masu Launuka, wanda Harold Moody ya shirya. Ta rayu ne a Bloomsbury, kuma ta yi fice a cikin wasan kwaikwayon da mawaki dan Jamaica Una Marson ya fara wasan farko, A Wace Irin Farashi, wacce gasar ta sanya a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Scala na London.

 Ayyuka 
Thomas ita ce mace ta farko daga Afirka da aka kira zuwa mashaya a Burtaniya, a cikin shekarar 1933. "West African Lady Barrister Called to the Bar" Nigerian Daily Telegraph (11 May 1933): 1. A cikin 1934, ita kadai ce 'yar Afirka da ta shiga tattaunawa tare da Margery Perham a Royal Society of Arts, kuma ta yi amfani da damar ta soki Ubangiji Lugard da mulkin mallaka na Afirka a gaban masu sauraro masu tasiri. Lokacin da ta dawo Afirka ta Yamma, ita ce mace ta farko da ta fara lauya a yankin. Marc Matera, "Black Internationalism and African and Caribbean Intellectuals in London, 1919-1950" (PhD diss., Rutgers University, 2008): 35–36.

Bayan dawowarta Afirka ta Yamma, da farko ta yi rajista a mashaya Saliyo kuma a watan Disambar shekarar 1935, ta dawo Legas ta kafa aikin lauya a kan titin Kakawa, Tsibirin Lagos. Ta yi aiki a kan batutuwan shari'a da yawa, gami da shari'o'in aikata laifi da matsalolin dangi, sannan ta yi aiki tare da lauyoyi Alex EJ Taylor da Eric Moore. 
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A shekarar 1943, ta zama mace ta farko da ta yanke hukunci a yankin Afirka ta Yamma, aiki a kotun majistare da ke Ikeja tare da ikon gundumomin Mushin, Agege da Ikorodu. Daga baya ta zama majistare a gidan kotun Saint Anna da kuma Kotun Botanical Gardens a Ebute-Metta .  Ta yi ritaya a matsayin alkalin alkalai a Saliyo a 1971. 

 Rayuwa 
A watan Nuwamba na shekarar 1944, Stella Thomas ta auri wani dan kwararren masanin shari'a, Richard Bright Marke, a Freetown. Ta mutu a shekarar 1974, tana da shekaru 68 a duniya. 

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