Elechi Amadi

Elechi Amadi MFR // ⓘ (12 Mayu 1934 - 29 Yuni 2016) marubuci ne kuma soja ɗan Najeriya. Ya kasance tsohon jami'in sojan Najeriya. Ya kasance marubucin wasan kwaikwayo da litattafai da suka shafi rayuwar ƙauyen Afirka, al'adu, imani, da ayyukan addini kafin tuntuɓar ƙasashen yammacin duniya. An fi ganin Amadi don littafinsa na farko na 1966, The Concubine, wanda ake kira "fitaccen aikin almara mai tsabta".Eldred Jones, "African Literature 1966-1967", African Forum, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 5.

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haife shi a shekarar 1934, a Mbodo-Aluu da ke karamar hukumar Ikwerre a jihar Ribas, Najeriya, Elechi Amadi ya halarci Kwalejin Gwamnati, Umuahia (1948-52), Makarantar Survey, Oyo (1953-54), da Jami'ar Ibadan (1955 – 59), inda ya sami digiri a fannin Physics da Mathematics.   Yayin da yake jami'a, ya karbi sunan Elechi Amadi, wanda ya ji yana nuna al'adunsa na Ikwerre fiye da sunan haihuwarsa, Emmanuel Elechi Daniel.

 Sana'a 
Ya yi aiki na wani lokaci a matsayin mai binciken filaye, sannan ya zama malami a makarantu da dama, ciki har da Makarantar Soja ta Najeriya, Zariya (1963-66). Hans M. Zell, Carol Bundy, Virginia Coulon, A New Reader's Guide to African Literature, Heinemann Educational Books, 1983; pp. 350-351.

 Aikin soja da siyasa 
Amadi ya yi aikin sojan Najeriya, ya ci gaba da zama a can lokacin yakin basasar Najeriya, kuma ya yi ritaya a matsayin kyaftin.  Sannan ya rike mukamai daban-daban a gwamnatin jihar Ribas : Babban Sakatare (1973-83), Kwamishinan Ilimi (1987-88) da Kwamishinan Filaye da Gidaje (1989-90). 

 Rubutu 
Ya kasance marubucin zama kuma malami a Kwalejin Ilimi ta Jihar Ribas, inda kuma ya kasance shugaban sashen fasaha, shugaban sashen adabi da daraktan nazari na gaba daya. 

Amadi ya ce littafinsa na farko shi ne a shekarar 1957, waka mai suna "Tubawa" a wata mujallar jami'ar Ibadan mai suna The Horn, wanda John Pepper Clark ya shirya. 

Littafin littafin Amadi na farko, The Concubine, an buga shi a Landan a cikin 1966 kuma an yaba da shi a matsayin "fitaccen aikin farko". Eustace Palmer, "Elechi Amadi and Flora Nwapa", African Literarture Today, no. 1, 1969, p. 56. Alastair Niven a cikin bincikensa mai mahimmanci game da littafin ya rubuta cewa: "Tsarin kafuwar ƙauyuka na farauta da kamun kifi na Neja delta, Ƙwarƙwarar ta mallaki rashin lokaci da duniya na babban labari." Alastair Niven, A Critical View on Elechi Amadi's "The Concubine" (London, 1981), p. 7. An yi kuyangar ta zama fim, wanda Elechi Amadi ya rubuta kuma fitaccen daraktan fina-finan Nollywood Andy Amenechi ne ya ba da umarni, wanda aka fara a Abuja a watan Maris 2007. 

Saitin littafin littafin Amadi na biyu, The Great Ponds, wanda aka buga a 1969, shine Gabashin Najeriya kafin mulkin mallaka, kuma yana magana ne game da yakin da aka yi tsakanin al’ummomin kauyuka biyu kan mallakar tafki.

A cikin 1973 Amadi autobiographical non-fiction, Sunset in Biafra, aka buga. Ya rubuta abubuwan da ya faru a yakin Najeriya da Biafra, kuma a cewar Niven "an rubuta shi a cikin wani nau'i mai ban sha'awa kamar labari ne". Niven, A Critical View on Elechi Amadi's "The Concubine", (1981), p. 5.

A ranar 13 ga watan Mayun 1989 aka gudanar da taron karawa juna sani a jami'ar Fatakwal domin murnar cika shekaru 55 da haihuwar Amadi. 

A watan Mayun 2004, kungiyar Marubuta ta Najeriya reshen jihar Ribas ta shirya taron bikin cika shekaru 70 da haihuwa Elechi Amadi. 

Don littafinsa na ƙarshe, Lokacin da Allah Ya zo, Elechi ya juya a karon farko zuwa nau'in fiction na kimiyya. Aderonke Adeleke, "Late Elechi Amadi’s Final Work Of Art, ‘When God Came’", The Cerebral Lemon Co., 1 July 2016. Da yake bitar ta, Lindsay Barrett ya rubuta cewa: “Lokacin da marubuci ya kai matsayin gunki a cikin sana’arsa, bisa la’akari da buga ayyukan da aka ayyana fitattun fitattun abubuwa tun farkon aikinsa, ba sabon abu ba ne ka same shi yana shiga cikin ayyukansa. Gwaji a matakai na ƙarshe na waccan sana'a. Haƙiƙa zai zama mafi daidai a ayyana su azaman ƙa'idodin falsafanci abin da ke cikin su yana yin la'akari da yanayin ɗan adam da iyakan yuwuwar cimma nasarar ɗan adam bisa ra'ayi na allahntaka maimakon kawai yin motsa jiki a cikin tunanin abubuwan da suka faru na wani yanayi na duniya., wanda mashahurin almarar kimiyya sau da yawa shine ... A cikin bincike na ƙarshe waɗannan ayyukan sun karanta kamar tatsuniyoyi daga nan gaba cewa marubucin dole ne ya sami jin daɗin ƙirƙira. Ƙaunar Amadi ga wallafe-wallafe da kuma abubuwan da ya yi a farkon shekarunsa sun rufe masa ilimin kimiyya musamman bayan yakin basasa lokacin da ya zauna a matsayin masanin ilimi kuma mai kula da gwamnati a jihar Rivers. A cikin wannan lokacin ne ya fara gwaje-gwajen a cikin sabbin nau'ikan rubuce-rubucen da wannan aikin ya kasance ɗan ƙaramin misali amma ba za a manta da shi ba.” Lindsay Barrett, "Fables From The Future: Elechi Amadi’s Philosophical Allegories", The Independent (Nigeria), 21 August 2016.

 Bayan shekaru 

 2009 sacewa 
A ranar 5 ga watan Janairun 2009 wasu ‘yan bindiga da ba a san ko su waye ba sun yi garkuwa da Amadi a gidansa da ke garin Aluu, Ikwerre . An sake shi a yammacin ranar 6 ga Janairu, sa'o'i 23 bayan haka. "Gunmen kidnap Nigerian novelist", BBC News, 6 January 2009. Jimitota Onoyume and Samuel Oyadongha, "Nigeria: Novelist, Elechi Amadi Kidnapped, Freed After 23 Hours", AllAfrica, 7 January 2009.

 Afirka39 
A 2014 ya kasance alkali na Africa39, tare da Tess Onwueme da Margaret Busby . "Imagine the World", Africa39.

 Mutuwa 
A ranar 29 ga Yuni, 2016, Amadi ya rasu a Asibitin Zuciya mai Kyau da ke Fatakwal yana da shekaru 82.  "Nigeria's Elechi Amadi, author of The Concubine, dies", BBC News, 30 June 2016. Wole Soyinka, wanda ya samu lambar yabo ta Nobel, ya yaba wa Amadi a matsayin "soja kuma mawaƙi, mai kame lamiri, haɗin kai da adalci." Ben Ezeamalu, "‘Adieu Soldier and Poet,’ Soyinka pays tribute to Elechi Amadi", Premium Times, 4 July 2016.

 Kyauta 
 1992 – Rivers State Silver Jubilee Merit Award.
 2003 – honorary doctorate, Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Education, honoris causa, awarded by Rivers State University of Science and Technology.
 2003 – Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Education.
 2003 – Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR).

 Gado 
Faculty of Humanity a Jami'ar Fatakwal, ta sadaukar da shi gare shi.  Port Harcourt Polytechnic an canza masa suna zuwa Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic a 2016. 

 Magana 

Rukuni:Shafuka masu fassarorin da ba'a duba ba