Burning Grass

Burning Grass wani littafi ne na marubucin Najeriya Cyprian Ekwensi . An buga shi a 1962 a matsayin littafi na biyu a cikin Heinemann's African Writers Series . 

 Bugawa 
Burning Grass shine littafi na farko da aka rubuta don bugawa a cikin jerin marubutan Afirka, wanda ya fara ta hanyar sake buga littattafan da suka bayyana a wasu wurare. An yanke rubutun daga kalmomi 80,000 zuwa 40,000 ta hanyar mai bugawa.

Heinemann ya yi imanin cewa manyan masu sauraro ga littafin za su kasance yara na makarantar sakandare, amma umarni sun wuce tsammanin su. An sayar da bugawa ta farko ta 2,500 da sauri kuma Heinemann ya sake buga ta sau da yawa. Daga baya masu wallafa ilimin Gabashin Afirka suka buga shi kuma an fassara shi zuwa Jamusanci a matsayin Der Wanderzauber . 

 Tarihi 
Manyan haruffa na littafin sune 'yan iyalin Mbororo-Fulani da ke zaune a arewacin mulkin mallaka na Najeriya. Duk da yake marubucin ba Mbororo-Fulani ba ne, littafin yana ba da labarin gamsarwa game da dabi'u da hanyoyin rayuwa na wannan al'umma. Ya dogara ne akan ɗan gajeren ziyarar da Ekwensi ya yi a yankin. Ya rubuta abubuwan da ya samu a cikin 'Weeks uku tsakanin Fulani', wanda ya bayyana a cikin fitowar Oktoba 1960 na Mujallar Najeriya.

Mbororo-Fulani makiyaya ne kuma yanayin karkara ya bambanta da mafi yawan birane wanda marubucin ya zaɓa don yawancin sauran littattafansa. Yankin da ba shi da ruwa yana da mahimmanci ga halayyar a cikin littafin.

 Makirci 
Labarin ya ta'allaka ne a kan jerin abubuwan da suka shafi iyalin Fulani Sunsaye, musamman Mai Sunsaye, shugaban gidan kuma shugaban Dokan Toro. Mai Sunsaye ta ceci wata baiwa, Fatimeh, daga bawan wani mutum mai suna Shehu. Bayyanar Fatimeh a cikin iyali ya haifar da jerin abubuwan da suka faru wanda ya haifar da kasada a cikin sauran littafin, wanda ya jagoranci Shaitu, matar Mai Sunsaye, don kallon ta a matsayin mummunan sa'a. Na farko, Rikku, ƙaramin ɗan Mai Sunsaye ya ƙaunaci Fatimeh wanda ya girme shi. Hodio, ɗan'uwan Rikku, da ɗan Mai Sunsaye na biyu, duk da haka, sun gudu tare da Fatimeh, sun bar Rikku mai ƙauna. Mai Sunsaye ya yi alkawarin yin duk abin da zai iya don ya sa Rikku ya ji daɗi. A lokaci guda abokin hamayyar Mai Sunsaye ga kursiyin Dokan Toro, Ardo, ya yi wa Mai Sunsaye sihiri ta hanyar taimakon talisman da aka ɗaure zuwa kafa na "mai launin toka" da "ja-ƙafar" Senegal kurciya. Magana, wanda aka sani da "sokugo" ko "rashin lafiya mai yawo" sihiri ne wanda "ya juya maza masu karatu zuwa masu yawo, wanda ya sa mazaje su bar matansu, Shugabannin mutanensu, da maza masu hankali". A karkashin tasirin wannan sihiri mai ban sha'awa, Mai Sunsaye an kaddamar da shi cikin kasada da yawa, a yayin da ya haye hanya tare da Jalla, ɗansa na fari, da sauran haruffa, ciki har da Baba, wani tsoho mai ban mamaki da ya sadu da shi a ƙauyen Tsohon Chanka (wanda hukumomin mulkin mallaka na Burtaniya suka kwashe, tare da mazauna suka koma New Chanka, saboda barkewar ts-tse, mai ɗaukar cutar da ke fama da bacci), da kuma wata jarumi mai ban mamaki, Ligu-maci mai suna Lder-maciyarta. A ƙarshen littafin, yawancin iyalin sun sake haɗuwa a Dokan Toro, kuma Mai Sunsaye a ƙarshe ya mutu daga mummunar haraji na abubuwan da ya faru.

 Halaye 

 Mai Sunsaye: The central protagonist; avid adventurer, and father of three sons.
 Rikku: Mai Sunsaye's youngest son, his third child.
 Hodio: Mai Sunsaye's second son.
 Shaitu: Mai Sunsaye's wife
 Leibe: Mai Sunsaye's daughter and fourth child.
 Jalla: Mai Sunsaye's oldest son, his first child.
 Ligu: A famous female herds-woman known as the champion cattle-herder.
 Baba: An eccentric old-man who refuses to leave the deserted town of Old Chanka.
 Fatimeh: the Kanuri slave-girl rescued by the Sunsaye family.
 Kantuma: A beautiful Kanuri woman who takes a strange interest in, and helps Rikku; she dies towards the end of the novel.
 Shehu: One of the principal antagonists of the novel and former owner of Fatimeh.
 Ardo: One of the principal antagonists, and rival to Mai Sunsaye for the chieftaincy of the Fulani settlement of Dokan Toro.

 Karɓar baƙi 
Margaret Laurence ta bayyana Burning Grass kamar yadda ya ƙunshi "... yawancin halaye na labarun gargajiya na Afirka, abubuwan da suka faru na sihiri, mata masu ban mamaki da masu yaudara, ayyukan jaruntaka mai ban mamaki, kasada mai sauri. "

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