Kojo Kamau

Kojo Kamau (October 11, 1939––December 12, 2016)  bụ onye na-ese foto na onye na-ese foto America nke dabere na Columbus, Ohio .

 Ndụ mmalite na agụmakwụkwọ 
A mụrụ Kojo Kamau Robert Jones Jr. na October 11, 1939 na East Side nke Columbus, Ohio.    After high school, he enrolled at the Columbus College of Art & Design and worked odd jobs. He later became a photographer for The Ohio Sentinel, a Columbus Black newspaper, before joining the U.S. Air Force in 1960 and editing the base newspaper in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In the south, he faced rampant discrimination and didn't photograph his time there so as not to remember it.

Ọ bụ nwa akwụkwọ nke Aminah Robinson na East High School, ebe ọ na-ewere ụdị ihe osise dị iche iche, wee gụchaa na 1957.  Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ sekọndrị, ọ debanyere aha na Columbus College of Art &amp; Design wee rụọ ọrụ ndị na-adịghị mma. O mechara bụrụ onye na-ese foto maka The Ohio Sentinel, akwụkwọ akụkọ Columbus Black, tupu ya abanye na US Air Force na 1960 ma dezie akwụkwọ akụkọ isi na Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. N'ebe ndịda, ọ na-akpa ókè n'ike n'ike, o meghịkwa foto oge ya n'ebe ahụ ka o wee ghara icheta ya. 
 Ọrụ 
Na 1964, Kamau laghachiri na Columbus, ebe ọ lụrụ di ma gbanwee aha ya na Kojo Kamau. Kojo pụtara "enweghị mmeri" na Yoruba na Kamau, "onye dị jụụ." Ọ gbara alụkwaghịm na 1970.    Williams bụ prọfesọ nke ihe nkiri na nkwurịta okwu na ngalaba ọmụmụ Black na onye ọbịa nke WOSU TV show Afromation ebe ọ ga-ese foto mgbasa ozi maka ndị ọbịa.  Ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye na-ese foto ahụike ruo 1994. 

Na 1978, di na nwunye ahụ gara Senegal, Ivory Coast, Etiopia, Tanzania na Egypt iji ghọtakwuo nka, omenala na akụkọ ihe mere eme nke Africa. "Photographer paints picture of journey from 1960". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved 2023-05-25.  Mgbe ha lọghachiri, ha nyere aka nweta ego maka njem Aminah nke Africa site n'ịtọpụta ụlọ ọrụ anaghị akwụ ụgwọ, ACE-Art for Community Expression, na 1979. Ụlọ ihe ngosi anaghị akwụ ụgwọ dị n'ime obodo Columbus n'akụkụ akuku site na ụlọ ahịa akpụ isi Elijah Pierce . Site na Harlem Renaissance sitere n'ike mmụọ nsọ, ọrụ abụọ nke ndị anaghị akwụ ụgwọ bụ iziga ndị nka na Africa ma nye ohere maka ndị ojii America igosipụta ọrụ ha n'ime ọnwa ndị ọzọ karịa February . Ndị otu ise nke bọọdụ ndị anaghị akwụ ụgwọ gụnyere onye na-ahụ maka ihe nka ojii mbụ nke Columbus Ursel White Lewis. 

Dị ka onye na-ese foto, Kamau na-ese foto ndị a ma ama gụnyere Muhammad Ali, President Barack Obama, Miles Davis, na Maya Angelou yana ihe nkiri n'okporo ámá Columbus, ụlọ ahịa na ndị mmadụ.   Ihe osise akwụkwọ ya chọrọ ịgbanwe echiche na-ezighị ezi nke ndị Black America, ma gosipụta akụkụ mmadụ nke ndị mmadụ na akwụkwọ dị mma nke ndụ ha.  E gosipụtara ọrụ ya na Columbus Museum of Art, Chicago Center of Science and Industry, na Art Institute of Pittsburgh . 

 Mgbe e mesịrị ọrụ na ọnwụ 
Na 1997, Kamau malitere ilekwasị anya na ọrụ ya dị ka onye nkuzi na Columbus State Community College . Ọ mechiri ọnọdụ ACE's Short North na 1999 ka afọ iri abụọ gasịrị mana ọ gara n'ihu na-etinye ihe ngosi n'akụkụ obodo ahụ mgbe ụfọdụ. 

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