Herzekiah Andrew Shanu

Herzekiah Andrew Shanu (An haifeshi a alif dubu daya da dari takwas da hamsin da takwas 1858 - Ya mutu a watan Yuli shekarar 1905) wani mai daukar hoto ne da aka gane saboda sa hannu a yakin da ake yi da cin zarafi a cikin 'Yancin Kwango .

 Shekarun farko 
Ya kasance mutumin Yarbawa, dan asalin Legas ne a Najeriya a yanzu. Da farko ya zama malamin makaranta. Ya yi karatu a Makarantar Grammar Society of Church, kuma daga baya a Cibiyar Horar da Malamai, a karshen abin da ya sauke karatu a matsayin malami. Ya shafe shekaru kadan yana koyarwa a wata makarantar firamare ta Legas.   Duk da haka, a cikin 1884, ya shiga aikin mulkin mallaka na kasar Kongo Free State a matsayin magatakarda, ya kai matsayin karamin kwamishina da kuma mai fassara Faransanci da Ingilishi a ofishin babban gwamna a Boma.  Da yake kafa kansa a Boma, sannan babban birnin kasar, ya bude babban kantin sayar da kayayyaki da daukar hoto. A cikin 1894, ya tafi Antwerp don halartar Exposition Internationale d'Anvers . An buga wasu daga cikin hotunansa a Le Congo illustré . A cikin 1900 ya nuna amincinsa ga Jamhuriyar Kongo ta hanyar tallafa wa hukumomi a lokacin zanga-zangar da aka buga ta Force Publique.Hochschild, Adam: King Leopold's Ghost, Houghton Mifflin, 1999. 

 Ilimi 
Herzekiah Andrew Shanu ya yi karatu a Makarantar Grammar Society of the Church, sannan kuma a Cibiyar Horar da Malamai, inda a karshensa ya sauke karatu a matsayin malami. Ya kwashe shekaru kadan yana koyarwa a wata makarantar firamare ta Legas. Duk da haka, a cikin 1884, ya shiga aikin mulkin mallaka na Kongo Free State a matsayin magatakarda.

 Ayyukan aiki 
A cikin 1903 Shanu ya ba Roger Casement bayanai game da cin zarafin ma'aikatan Afirka ta Yamma a Kongo, wanda kuma ya tura shi zuwa E.<span typeof="mw:Entity" id="mwLA">&nbsp;</span>D. Morel . Morel da Shanu sun yi musayar saƙo na shekaru da yawa; Gabatarwar Shanu, a tsakanin wasu abubuwa, kwafin gwaji na gwaji da aka yi wa wasu jami'an gwamnatin Kwango Free State wanda ya bayyana sosai. Yayin da ake kokarin samun bayanai daga shugaban 'yan sandan Boma, Shanu ya samu labarin kuma sakamakon haka jami'an jihar suka yi masa kawanya. Bayan da aka gano cewa Shanu ya bai wa kungiyar sauye-sauyen Kongo hujjojin ta'addanci a Kongo, an umarci ma'aikatan gwamnati da su kaurace masa kasuwancinsa. Ya sha wahala kuma ya kashe kansa a watan Yuli 1905. 

 Nassoshi 

 Christraud M. Geary, ciki da waje Mai da hankali: Hotuna daga Afirka ta Tsakiya, 1885–1960. London: Philip Wilson na Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, shafi. 104-106.
 "Masu daukar hoto na Kinshasa, 1870 zuwa 2000", Revue Noire, 2001.  .

 Hanyoyin haɗi na waje 

 Bayani game da Shanu daga National Museum of African Art .