Sophia Obiajulu Ogwude

**Sophia Obiajulu Ogwude**, Farfesa ce ta Najeriya a fannin adabin Ingilishi da kwatance a tsangayar fasaha ta Jami'ar Abuja, Gwagwalada.

Ita ce shugabar tsangayar fasaha ta Jami'ar Abuja. Ta yi aiki a matsayin Darakta, Cibiyar Nazarin Gabaɗaya a Jami'ar Fasaha ta Tarayya, Owerri. Ta kasance Daraktar Cibiyar Nazarin Tsaron Jinsi da Ci gaban Matasa na Jami’ar Abuja. A kan haka ne ta kira taron kasa na farko kan harkokin tsaron jinsi a Najeriya. Ita ce tsohuwar mai magana a taron sadarwar mata ta ƙasa da ƙasa. A cikin 2012, Ogwude ta kasance mai shari'a don lambar yabo ta Najeriya don adabi (Fiction). Ana lura da ita a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin manyan masu sukar Najeriya.

Wasu malamai sun sake nazarin rubuce-rubucenta kuma sun haɗa da wallafe-wallafe a kan Bessie Head, tarihin almara a Najeriya da kuma tashin hankali don ƙarin hoton mace a cikin almara na Afirka.[12] Ita mamba ce a kungiyar adabin baka ta Najeriya (NORA). An buga littafi game da ita a cikin 2017.

## Ilimi
An baiwa Ogwude lambar yabo ta musamman na mata na jihar Bendel don halartar Jami'ar Najeriya a 1973. Ta kammala karatunta a Jami’ar Najeriya a shekarar 1977 da digirin farko a fannin Turanci. Ta wuce Jami’ar Ahmadu Bello da ke Zariya, inda ta yi Diploma, wadda ta samu a watan Nuwamba, 1981. Ogwude ta samu gurbin karatu na Gwamnatin Tarayya inda ta samu digiri na biyu a fannin Adabin Dabi’u (Comparative Literature) a Jami’ar Ibadan a watan Nuwamba, 1984. Da Kwalejin. Na Advanced Studies, Zariya Fellowship Award, ta samu digirin digirgir a fannin Ingilishi a Jami’ar Ahmadu Bello da ke Zariya a watan Janairu, 1990.

## Aiki
Ogwude ta shiga cikakken bincike da koyarwa a matakin manyan makarantu a watan Oktoba 1980. A shekarar 1984, ta kasance shugabar Sashen Amfani da Ingilishi, Sashen Harsuna, Kwalejin Advanced Studies, Zariya. Ta koma Jami'ar Fasaha ta Tarayya da ke Owerri daga 1994 zuwa 1996, ta yi aiki a matsayin shugabar sashin Ingilishi, sashin nazarin janar na jami'ar. Ta yi aiki a matsayin Darakta, Janar Studies Division daga 2002 zuwa 2004 a cikin ma'aikata. Daga Satumba 2008 zuwa Janairu, 2014, ta kasance shugabar tsangayar fasaha ta Jami’ar Abuja. Ogwude ya yi aiki a matsayin Daraktan Cibiyar Nazarin Tsaro da Ci gaban Matasa na Jami’ar daga 2016 zuwa 2018.

## Gudunmawar bincike
Digiri na uku na Ogwude, wanda aka kammala a watan Disamba 1989, yana kan ayyukan Bessie Head. Rubuce-rubucen nata ya kalubalanci ra'ayoyin marubuciyar Afirka ta Kudu, inda ta canza ta daga wani mutum mai ra'ayin mazan jiya mai shakku kan mahimmancin siyasa zuwa mutuniyar adabin da ake mutuntawa a Afirka ta Kudu. An buga sassan aikin a cikin mujallu na ilimi kuma daga baya aka buga shi a matsayin littafi mai suna "Bessie Head: An Exile Writing on Home," na Jami'ar Ahmadu Bello ta Press a 1998.

## Membanci da fellowship
Ita memba ce ta Kungiyar Adabin Baka ta Najeriya (NORA), Kwalejin Harufa ta Najeriya, da Kungiyar Adabi ta Najeriya.

## Wallafa
### Litattafai
* Writing the female image in African fiction
* Parables of Alienation in Modern Fiction (Owerri: Ihem Davis Publishers, 1990)
* Studies in Nigerian Fiction (Owerri: Ihem Davis Publishers, 1999)
* Recollections (poetry) (Owerri: Ihem Davis Publishers, 1999)
* Testimonies (Ibadan: Kraft Books, 2008)
* Writing the Female Image in African Literature (Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, 2013)

### Zababbun wallafe-wallfe
* S.O. Ogwude (1998) "Protest and Commitment in Bessie Head's Utopia"
* S.O. Ogwude (2011) "History And Ideology In Chimamanda Adichie's Fiction"
* S.O. Ogwude (1996) “Realism and Commitment in the Works of Festus Iyayi” *Savanna: A Journal of the Environmental and Social* Sciences, Zaria: ABU Press Vol.17, Nos1&2 June & December : 55-60.
* S.O. Ogwude (1996) "Towards Improving the Attitude of Tertiary Students to "The Use of English Course in Nigeria. *Nigerian Educational Forum.*13 (2)  December: 221-8. 
* S.O. Ogwude (1997) "The Role of Literature in ELT: An ESL Teacher's Perspective", Zaria *Journal of Educational Studies* Vol. 2 (1):  86-90.
* S.O. Ogwude (2000) “Okpewho’s *The Victims:* Victims of Art not of Fire”  in E. N. Emenyonu (ed) *Goat Skin Bags and Wisdom: New Critical Perspectives on Africa Literature* New Jersey: African World   Press: 173-181. 
* S.O. Ogwude (2001) ”Achebe on the Woman Question” *The Literary Griot: International Journal of Black Expressive Culture Studies* Vol.13, Nos. 1&2 Spring/Fall: 62-69. 

## Manazarta