Abdilatif Abdalla

Abdilatif Abdalla (an haife shi a shekara ta 1946 a Mombasa) marubuci ne kuma mai fafutukar siyasa a Kenya. An ɗaure shi saboda goyon bayansa ga Kungiyar Jama'ar Kenya, kuma ya fara rubuta waka a cikin kurkuku. An buga tarin waƙoƙi daga wannan lokacin a matsayin littafi mai taken Sauti ya Dhiki[lower-alpha 1] (1973), wanda aka ba shi Kyautar Jomo Kenyatta don wallafe-wallafen.

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haifi Abdilatif Abdalla a Mombasa, Kenya, a 1946, inda kakansa Ahmad Basheikh bin Hussein ya tashe shi. Abdalla ya halarci makaranta a Faza, kafin ya ci gaba da karatu a Kwalejin Koyarwa ta Burtaniya . Ya fara shiga siyasa bayan ya yi aiki ga Majalisar Birnin Mombasa a matsayin mataimakin mai lissafi, yana rubuta takarda Kenya Twendapi?  (Eng: Kenya, Where Are We Headed) don tallafawa Kungiyar Jama'ar Kenya a shekarar 1968.  

 Kurkuku na siyasa da rubutu 
Lokacin da Gwamnatin Kenya ta Jomo Kenyatta ta gudanar da zalunci a kan masu gwagwarmayar KPU, an daure Abdalla saboda makirci tsakanin 1969 da 1972. Da farko an tsare shi a gidan yarin Kamiti, sannan daga baya a gidan yaren Shimo la Tewa, inda aka tsare shi a kurkuku. A lokacin da yake kurkuku ne ya rubuta waƙoƙin da za a tattara a cikin aikin 1973 Sauti ya Dhiki, wanda taken ya fassara zuwa "Muryar Wahala". Wadannan an rubuta su a cikin Mombasa version na yaren Swahili  kuma babban ɗan'uwansa Sheikh Abdilahi Nassir ne ya buga su. Daga baya ya bayyana cewa rubuta waƙoƙin a cikin kurkuku ya kiyaye shi lafiya.

Bayan an ba shi lambar yabo ta Jomo Kenyatta don wallafe-wallafen Sauti ya Dhiki a shekara ta 1974, ya koma gudun hijira zuwa Tanzania. Yayinda yake can ya yi aiki a matsayin babban mai bincike a kan Swahili a Jami'ar Dar es Salaam kuma ya haɗa kai wajen gyara ƙamus na Swahili. A shekara ta 1979, ya koma London kuma ya yi aiki a sashen BBC Swahili, daga baya ya shirya mujallar labarai ta Africa Events . An buga waka ta Harshen Ingilishi kawai ta Abdalla a cikin 1988, mai taken Peace, Love and Unity for Whom?. Wannan ya kasance ne don mayar da martani ga yunkurin da gwamnatin Daniel arap Moi ta yi na cin hanci ga Abdalla don kada ya sake aiki tare da Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Abdalla tun daga lokacin ya koyar da Swahili a Jami'ar Leipzig . 

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Rukuni:Rayayyun mutane
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1946