Bantu Mwaura

Bantu Mwaura ɗan ƙasar Kenya ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne, darekta, marubucin wasan kwaikwayo, mai ba da labari, mawaƙi kuma malamin jami'a. Har ila yau, ya kasance mai fafutuka na siyasa da Fafutukar kare 'yancin ɗan adam kuma masanin al'adu wanda ya yi aiki mafi yawa tare da ƙungiyoyin jama'a ta amfani da wasan kwaikwayo da wasan kwaikwayo a cikin 'yancin ɗan adam da ayyukan ci gaba.

An buga waƙar Bantu a cikin mujallu da tarihin tarihi da yawa a cikin Turanci, Swahili da Gikuyu. An ba shi izini daga ƙungiyoyi irin su Majalisar Ɗinkin Duniya na Ikklisiya da Ƙungiyar Jama'a ta Duniya don rubutawa da yin waƙa a cikin dandalin duniya, yin waƙa da kuma magana a Turai, Amurka da ƙasashe da dama a Afirka. A ƙasar Kenya, Bantu ta fito a cikin wakokin wakoki na wata-wata da Kwani ke shiryawa?, babbar mujallar adabi ta Gabas da Afirka. Bantu ya kasance wani ɓangare na shirin Waƙar Afirka a dandalin zamantakewa na Duniya a Nairobi a shekara ta 2007. Ya koyar da wakoki da ba da labari da rubuce-rubucen wasan kwaikwayo a jami'o'i daban-daban na Kenya da Amurka kuma an yi wasanninsa a Kenya da Zimbabwe da Amurka da Birtaniya.https://web.archive.org/web/20081231234720/http://www.cca.ukzn.ac.za/images/pa/PA2008/pg/Mwaura.htm

Wakokin Bantu sun fi mayar da hankali ne kan batutuwan zamantakewa da siyasa, inda suka yi nazari kan yadda ake yin odar al’umma da yadda al’amuran zamantakewa da tattalin arziki da siyasa ke tasiri ga ci gaban al’umma gaba ɗaya. A yin haka, waƙarsa ta fi mayar da hankali ne kan nazarin nahiyar Afirka, siyasarta, tarihinta da matsayinta a fagen duniya.Text adapted with permission from Poetry Africa Website 

Bantu ya yi karatun digirinsa na uku (PhD) a fannin nazarin aiki a Jami’ar New York sannan kuma ya yi digiri na biyu a fannin wasan kwaikwayo daga Jami’ar Leeds (UK) da kuma wani Masters a Afirka-Amurka da Nazarin Afirka daga Jami’ar Jihar Ohio (US). Binciken nasa ya fi mayar da hankali ne kan nazarin yadda ka'idar wasan kwaikwayon ke mu'amala da ayyukan wasan kwaikwayo a Afirka, yadda al'adu ke tasiri da kuma tasirin siyasa na gaske, da kuma siyasar sararin wasan kwaikwayo.The Standard, April 27, 2009: Human rights activist Bantu Mwaura found dead

Bantu kuma shine editan kafa kuma babban editan Jahazi - wata jarida kan fasaha, al'adu da wasan kwaikwayo.

Ya bar wata gwauruwa Susan da ’ya’ya mata biyu.

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutuwan 2009