Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

**Meri Nana-Ama Danquah** (an haife ta a 13 ga watan Satumbar shekarar 1967) marubuciya ce dan ƙasar Ghana, edita, ɗan jarida kuma mai magana da yawun jama'a, wanda sunan ta a lokacin haihuwa shi ne **Mildred Mary Nana-Ama Boakyewaa Brobby**. An fi saninta da tunawa da 1998 *Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression*.

## Rayuwa
Nana-Ama Danquah an haife ta ne a Accra, Ghana, ga Josephine Nana Korantemaa Danquah da Norbert Duke Brobby. Kakanninta na haihuwa shine Dr J. B. Danquah, marubuciya kuma fitaccen dan siyasa na kasar Ghana, kuma ita 'yar wasan kwaikwayo Paul Danquah ce, wacce ta rubuta a jaridar *Washington Post*.

Danquah ta koma ƙasar Amurka tun tana dan shekara shida don zama tare da kuma mahaifiyarta, wacce ta yi ƙaura zuwa can shekaru uku da suka gabata don zuwa Jami'ar Howard. Iyayenta sun sake su bayan shekaru shida, suna rabuwa lokacin da Danquah yake ɗan shekara 11. Yayin da yake halartar Foxcroft, makarantar kwana ta 'yan mata da ke Middleburg, Virginia, Danquah ta yanke shawarar canza sunanta daga Mildred Brobby zuwa Meri Danquah. Bayan da ta sauka daga Jami'ar Maryland, daga ƙarshe ta koma Los Angeles tana da shekara 20.

Danquah ta haifi 'yarta a shekarar 1991, kuma sun zauna tare da saurayin Danquah a lokacin kuma mahaifin' yarta. Bayan da aka nemi umarnin hana shi daga mahaifin 'yarta dangane da rikicin cikin gida, Danquah da' yarta sun koma Washington D.C., inda iyayenta da 'yar uwarta suke zaune.

Yayin da take cikin D.C., Danquah ta fahimci cewa ta sha wahala daga rashin kwanciyar hankali na asibiti, wata cuta da za ta zama tushen abin tunawa da *Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression*, wanda aka buga a 1998 don yabo mai mahimmanci. An buga bayanai daga littafin a cikin anthology *Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness*. Kungiyar Lafiya ta Kasa ta zaɓi Danquah a matsayin mai magana da yawun kamfen ɗin su game da Clinical Depression, wanda yunƙurin musamman matan Afirka-Amurkan ne.

A cikin shekarar 1999, Danquah ta sami digiri na Master of Fine Arts a cikin Rubutun Halitta da Adabi, tana mai da hankali kan Ƙirƙirar Ƙira, daga Kwalejin Bennington, duk da cewa ba ta taɓa kammala karatun digiri ba. Ta yi koyarwa a Jami'ar Ghana, a Otis College of Art and Design, kuma a cikin shirin MFA na Kwalejin Antioch, kuma ana neman ta a matsayin mai magana da malami.

Ta kuma tsara tarihin rubuce-rubucen mata, ciki har da *Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women* (2003), wanda Maya Angelou ta ce game da shi a wata fa'ida: “Ms. Danquah ta girgiza bishiyar adabi. 'Ya'yan itacen da suka fadi zai ciyar da masu karatu na dogon lokaci..."

A cikin shekarata 2011, Danquah ta sanar da cewa tana aikin novel. Ta rubuta labarai da ginshiƙai a cikin wallafe-wallafen ciki har da *The Washington Post*, *Village Voice*, *The Los Angeles Times*, *Allure*, *Essence*, *The Africa Report*  da *[[Daily Graphic (Ghana)|Daily Graphic]]*. Ita ce babban editan adabi da al'adun Afirka a *Los Angeles Review of Books*.

Ta kasance mai ba da gudummawa ga tarihin tarihin shekarar 2019 *New Daughters of Africa*, wanda Margaret Busby ta shirya, tare da tarihin "Tace lafiya lau ga Mary Danquah".

## Littafi Mai Tsarki

### A matsayin marubuciya

* *Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression*, W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, 

### A matsayin edita

* *Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women*, W. W. Norton, 2003, 
* *The Black Body*, Seven Stories Press, 2009, 
* *Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women*, Hyperion Books, 2000, 
* *American Woman: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women* (Expanded Second Edition), Seven Stories Press, 2012, 
* *Accra Noir*, Akashic Books, 2020, 

### Zaɓaɓɓun kasidu da labarai

* "Life as an Alien", in O'Hearn, Claudine Chiawei (ed.), *Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural* (Pantheon Books, 1998), *The Washington Post*, 17 May 1998.
* "What I Learned From My Auntie Maya", *Wall Street Journal*, 28 May 2014.
* "A Different Breed" (memoir excerpt), *Kweli*, 9 August 2014.
* "Afro-Kinky Human Hair", in: *Everything But The Burden: What White Peope Are Taking From Black Culture*, edited by Greg Tate, 2003, New York: Harlem Moon Broadway Books, 
* "Saying Goodbye to Mary Danquah", in *New Daughters of Africa*, edited by Margaret Busby, 2019. London: Myriad Editions; New York: Amistad Press.

## Manazarta