Herbert Ward (mai zane-zane)

Herbert Ward (11 Janairu 1863, London - 5 ga Agusta 1919, Neuilly-sur-Seine ) ɗan sculptor ne na Biritaniya, mai zane, marubuci, kuma mai bincike a Afirka. Ya kasance memba na Henry Morton Stanley 's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition kuma ya zama aminin Roger Casement yayin da suke aiki a cikin Kongo Free State . Daga baya Ward ya zama sculptor kuma ya zauna a Faransa. An ba shi lambar yabo ta Croix de Guerre,  sau biyu ana ambatonsa a cikin aikawasiku a yakin duniya na daya, ya kasance jami'in Légion d'Honneur  kuma memba na Royal Society of British Sculptors . 

 Rayuwar farko 
Ward ya bar makarantar Mill Hill yana dan shekara 15 kuma ya yi tafiya zuwa New Zealand, ya shafe shekaru uku masu zuwa a New Zealand da Australia . Ya kasance "kauri-gum digger, ma'adinin kwal da zinariya, mahayin jari, mai wasan circus kuma mai yin jirgin ruwa".  Ya yi shekara guda a matsayin ɗan ƙarami tare da Kamfanin Arewacin Borneo na Burtaniya, amma cutar zazzabin cizon sauro ya tilasta masa komawa Ingila.

 A Kongo 
A cikin 1884, Ward ya sadu da Henry Morton Stanley a Landan, lokacin da aka yi masa hira da shi a matsayin jami'i a sabuwar Jamhuriyar Kwango Free State, wani yanki mai zaman kansa na Sarki Leopold na Belgium. Stanley ya ba da shawarar Ward don matsayi, kuma ya yi aiki na shekaru biyu masu zuwa tare da babba da ƙananan kogin Kongo, inda ya fara saduwa da Roger Casement . Wannan na baya-bayan nan yana aikin gina titin jirgin kasa don kewaya cataracts na ƙananan kogin. Bayan an maye gurbinsa da wani jami'in Belgium, Ward ya shiga Kamfanin Binciken Sanford.

A cikin Maris 1887, bayan ya bar Kamfanin Sanford, Ward yana komawa Ingila lokacin da ya sake ci karo da Stanley, wanda ke hada Emin Pasha Relief Expedition . Stanley ya nada Ward a matsayin laftanar kuma ya sanya shi a ƙarƙashin umarnin Manjo Edmund Barttelot a ginshiƙin baya na balaguro. Stanley ya bar ginshiƙin baya, wanda ya ƙunshi ƴan dako 250 da jami’ai biyar, a watan Yuni 1887, yana cewa “Zan same ku a nan cikin Oktoba idan na dawo.” Saboda jinkirin Stanley, ginshiƙin baya ya kasance a Yambuya kusa da Kogin Aruwimi na watanni goma sha huɗu masu zuwa, maimakon huɗu. A lokacin, fiye da 100 daga cikin 'yan dako sun mutu, kuma biyu daga cikin jami'anta sun mutu ba da daɗewa ba. 

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1919