Ifa Buling

Ifa Bayeza (amụrụ Wanda Williams ) bụ onye na-ede egwuregwu, onye na-emepụta ihe na onye na-ese ihe nkiri.  O dere egwuregwu The Ballad of Emmett Till, nke nwetara ya Edgar Award for Best Play na 2009.  Ọ bụ nwanne nwanyị Ntozake Shange, wee duzie Shange's A Foto: Ndị hụrụ n'anya na Motion, nke bụ akụkụ nke Negro Ensemble Company's 2015 Year of the Woman Play Reading Series na New York City. 

 Ndụ onwe onye 
A mụrụ Bayeza Wanda Williams, n'ime ezinụlọ ndị America America dị elu na Trenton, New Jersey . Ọ bya asụ iya l'alị Ifa Bayaza;  o kwuwo na aha mgbanwe aha ya bụ ụzọ e si enweta ihe nketa ya ma kọwaa ya dị ka emume emume. Bayeza kwuru na ya "na-anabata onye Africa nke m na-amaghị, mana enwere m mmetụta. Ma m ka na-edobe isi nke Wanda." Persico, Joyce J. "Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza — the erstwhile Williams siblings of Trenton — mark careers with new novel, film", The Times (Trenton), October 9, 2010. Accessed November 6, 2017. "'I was a very fearful child,' said Shange, who remembers first being called a racial slur at age 3 or 4.... 'I remember they threw cherry bombs at our home in Lawrenceville.'" Ọ bụ nne na nna ya, Paul T. Williams, onye dibịa na onye na-agbasi mbọ ike maka ndị ogbenye, zụlitere ya.  na Eloise Williams, onye nkuzi na onye na-ahụ maka ahụike uche.

 Ihe nrite 

 2009 Edgar Award maka egwuregwu kacha mma
 2007 Eugene O'Neill Playwright Conference mkpakọrịta
 2003 Arna Bontemps Centennial Writer Fellowship na Tuck School Minority Business Executive Programme (MBEP)
 2010 Backstage Garland Award maka Edemede Kachasị Mma

 Nnabata dị mkpa: Ballad nke Emmett Till 
Steve Oxman tụlere ọrụ Bayeza na Variety.com, na-aja ọrụ ya na ihe ngosi ya nke Emmett Till site n'ịkọwa ya dị ka, "n'ụzọ zuru oke zuru oke na, ọ bụ ezie na ọ nwere ike na-eche na ọ na-emetụ aka nke ọma, ọ dịkwa n'ụwa. Ọ na-edozi ya n'ụzọ zuru oke maka ya fesa nwanyi ọcha dika ihe aka ya di ọcha." Otú ọ dị, Oxman abụghị onye na-akwado onye nta akụkọ Jimmy Hicks, na-ekwu na ọ dị ya ka, "ihe dị egwu."  Na 2010, emere egwuregwu a na Los Angeles's Fountain Theatre. Egburu onye nduzi mbụ, Ben Bradley, na mberede, Shirley Jo Finney welitere mmepụta ahụ. Na nyocha nke Kathleen Foley banyere egwuregwu ahụ, yana ito ntuziaka Finney, o chere na akaụntụ Bayeza mere ka Till's fate na-ewute ọbụna karịa, na-ekwu na, "N'ime nke ahụ ọ na-eme nke ọma, n'ụzọ magburu onwe ya. Emehiela: Ị ga-agbawa obi." 

Emere egwuregwu a na San Diego's Ion Theatre na 2017. Yolanda Franklin na Claudio Raygoza duziri ihe omume ahụ, ma gosipụta mkpokọta agwa isii. Na nyocha ya, David L. Coddon kwuru na, "Ọkara elekere ikpeazụ nke mmepụta nkeji 95 a bụ ihe na-eme ka ndị na-ege ntị na-ege ntị." Ọ gara n'ihu site n'ikwu na egwuregwu ahụ na-ejedebe na nchekwube nke na-emepụta nchekwube maka ụwa ọhụrụ. 

 Ntụaka 
emume. Bayeza kwuru na ya "na-anabata onye Africa nke m na-amaghị, mana enwere m kwụna-edozi ya n'ụzọ zuru oke maka ya fesa nwanyi ọcha dika ihe aka ya di ọcha." Otú ọ dị, Oxman
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