Philo Ikonya

Philo Ikonya marubuciya ce, 'yar jarida kuma mai fafutukar kare hakkin ɗan adam daga ƙasar Kenya. Muƙalolin ta da littattafanta sukan yi tsokaci kan halin da ake ciki a siyasance a Kenya. Ita ce shugabar ƙungiyar PEN reshen Kenya, ƙungiyar marubuta ta duniya. Bayan da aka kama ta da dama saboda fafutuka da kuma shan mummunan duka a shekarar 2009 yayin da take hannun 'yan sanda, ta bar Kenya a gudun hijirar siyasa.

 Rayuwa 
Baya ga labaran jaridu da mujallu, Ikonya ta buga littafai na wakoki da wani littafi mai suna Kenya, Za Ku Aure Ni? Ta kuma fassara littafin wakoki na mawaƙin ƙasar Sin Jidi Majia zuwa harshen Kiswahili. 

Ikonya ta halarci Jami'ar Nairobi, inda ta sami digiri na biyu a fannin adabi. Ta koyar da ilimin kimiyya a Kwalejin Tangaza na Jami'ar Katolika ta Gabashin Afirka.

 Gwagwarmaya 
Yayin da take a Kenya, Ikonya ta kasance mai aiki a cikin aikin kare 'yancin ɗan adam da gwagwarmayar marar tashin hankali kuma an kama ta sau biyu a cikin shekarar 2007.  A wata zanga-zangar adawa da shugaban Kenya na lokacin Mwai Kibaki a shekara ta 2008, ta ce, "Kowace rana wani abu na faruwa wanda ke nuna rashin jin daɗi daga ɓangaren shugabanni don haka ake samun rashin gamsuwa."  A cikin shekarar 2009, ta koyi littafin ɗan jaridan Burtaniya Michela Wrong It's Our Turn to Eat: Labarin Wani Whistle-Blower na Kenya, wanda ke samuwa a duniya amma ana tantance shi a Kenya. Ikonya da sauran membobin PEN na Kenya sun sami kwafi kuma sun dawo da su Kenya don ƙarin rarrabawa.

A ranar 18 ga watan Fabrairu, 2009, an kama Ikonya da wasu mutane biyu a wajen majalisar dokokin Kenya a wata zanga-zangar adawa da hauhawar farashin kayayyaki. Yayin da take hannun ‘yan sanda, wani ɗan sanda namiji ya yi mata mugun duka.    Daga baya a wannan shekarar, ta bar Kenya kuma ta tafi Birnin 'Yan Gudun Hijira na Duniya a Oslo, Norway.  Ta ci gaba da kasancewa tare da PEN, gami da Marubutansu a Kwamitin kurkuku.

 Manazarta 

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