Safiya Songhai

**Safiya Songhai**, ta kasance ƴar fim ɗin Amurka ce, mai watsa labarai ta talabijin, mai ba da rahoto da kuma sarauniya kyau. Ta kasance itace ta farko data kasance Miss Black USA 2008 a wakiltar Massachusetts.  Songhai ta kasance gwarzuwar gida kuma mai tsere a cikin biyu daga cikin District of Columbia da New York masu neman shiga gasar Miss America. Daga 2010 - 2012, Songhai ta yi aiki a matsayin farfesa ta Mass Communications a Jami'ar Prairie View A&M, ɗaliban jami'ar sun gabatar da ita ga kyautar Shugaban Malamai da kuma lambar yabo na PV Choice.

## Tarihin Rayuwa

### Iyali
An haifi Songhai a Philadelphia zuwa Dwight Lamont Hendricks da Tamara Pierce.  Iyayen Songhai sun hadu a Filin Wasan Kasa da Kasuwa na Philadelphia, wani biki inda Songhai daga baya za ta lashe kyautar fim dinta na farko. Mahaifiyarta ta fito daga shahararren dangin Philadelphia kuma ta kasance mai kirkiro kuma mai masaukin baki don wasan WPVI na wasan kwaikwayo na *VP*,  kuma daga baya ta yi aiki a ofisoshi daban-daban a matsayin mace ta kamara kuma editan labarai na *Frontline* .  

Songhai ita ce jikanyar sanannen likitan likitanci Dr. Harold E. Pierce, jikanyar alkalin tarayya mai ritaya Lawrence W. Pierc, ita ce yarima mai jiran gado na duniya Barkley L. Hendricks, kuma yar uwan mai wasan kwaikwayo kuma mai wasan motsa jiki Jayne Kennedy . 

### Karatu
Bayan shekaru 7, Songhai ta girma a Roxbury, Massachusetts, kuma ta kammala karatunsa a Makarantar Latin Latin .  Songhai ta yi fice a bainar Jama'a, Gwamnatin daliba, da rubuce-rubuce, kuma ta kammala a matakin 10% na ajin ta. Har ila yau, ita ce Shugabar kungiyar Al'adu ta Afirka, kuma mamba a cikin Kungiyar Kwadago ta kasa. An zabi Songhai da alama ta zama Jagora saboda irin rawar da ta taka a makarantar sakandare. Har ila yau, Songhai ta kafa lambobin yabo guda biyu, Siyarwar Nazarin Ruhun Latin da kuma lambar yabo ta Crystal Apple Teacher's  yayin da take shugabar Kwamitin Dalibai. 

### Karatun gaba
Songhai ta fara karatun nata ne a Kwalejin Dartmouth, ta mai da hankali sosai a harkar fim, tarihi da kirkirar rubutu. Daga baya, ta canza sheka zuwa Jami'ar Howard  inda ta kammala karatuttukan summa kuma ta zama gado na uku na makarantar. Daga baya Songhai ta kammala MFA a Fim da kuma Talabijin a makarantar Tisch na Arts a Jami'ar New York . 

Yayinda take karatun digiri na biyu, Songhai ta sauka matsayin mai watsa shirye-shiryen talabijin a kamfanin haɗin gwiwa na PBS WHUT-TV a Washington, DC, kuma tayi aiki a WJZ-TV a Baltimore a matsayin mai gabatarwa da kuma mai ba da labari ga gidan caca na Maryland . Ta yi nasara a kan dalibi Emmy  a shekararta ta ƙarshe a kwaleji. 

## Aikin fim
A shekarar 2003, Songhai ta fara kamfanin shiya fina-finai na Mpirefilms.  Ayyukan farko sun kasance gajeren fina-finai, sanar wa jama'a  har ma da kaset na duba na gaskiya wanda ke nuna bege. Fim ta farko, *LadyLike*, ta karɓi rarraba ta hanyar AltCinema  kuma an bincika ta a duniya. 

A shekara ta 2010, Songhai ta shiga sashen koyarwa na Jami’ar Prairie View A&M a matsayin malami mai cikakken koyon hanyoyin sadarwa. Studentsalibai da ɗalibai sun zaɓe ta a lambar yabo ta Shugaba na Kyautar, da kuma Choaƙatar Zabi na PV don ƙwararren koyarwa. 

## Fina-finai

### Kyaututtuka da kuma gabatarwa

## Aikin jarida da talabijin
Songhai ta kasance mai isar da *labarai na Labaran Yanzu* a tashar labarai ta duniya, Arise.tv. A cikin 2012, Songhai ta kasance matattarar karshen mako da kuma mai ba da rahoto na saiti ga ƙungiyar ABC mai wakiltar KQ2 a St. Joseph, Missouri. A 2008, ta rufe kidan Laifuka da Adalci don wasan kwaikwayon *Richard French Live* akan WRNN-TV a Westchester, NY. Har ila yau Songhai ta ba da gudummawa ga gidan yanar gizo na FDNN-TV wanda ke ba da labaran labaran mutane game da masu kashe gobara a Gabas. Yayin da take cikin kwaleji da makarantar digiri na biyu, Songhai ya yi aiki a matsayin mai watsa shiri na TV, kuma mai gabatarwa don WHUT-TV, mai haɗin PBS a Washington, DC. Ta ci nasara a Dalibin Emmy a matsayin mai kera abubuwa na musamman da ake kira *Spring Black Arts Festival* . Har ila yau, Songhai ya samar da shirye-shiryen caca na karshen mako a WJZ-TV 13 a Baltimore, yana aiki a matsayin mai ba da sanarwar tallafi. 

An gabatar da Songhai a cikin littattafai guda biyu a matsayin hira da gwani, *Shut Up da Shoot Documentary Guide a Down and Dirty DV Production* wanda Anthony Q. Artis da *Reel Abinci daga Reel Mata* ta Nina Knapp suka gabatar. An nuna Songhai a cikin *mujallar Hype Hair, mujallar* *Jet* kuma ta rubuta kasida ga *jaridar Washington Post* . 

## Pageantry
Songhai ta kasance wacce ta zo ta farko a tseren Miss Black USA 2008, mai wakiltar Massachusetts a gasar. Songhai ta yi aiki sananne a cikin tsarin Miss America Pageant, inda ya lashe taken Miss Five Boroughs a 2004 wanda aka sanya  ta a cikin manyan goma na gasar cin nasara a kan mataki a kan Miss New York Pageant. Kafin wannan nasarar, Songhai ta kasance ta farko ta farko har zuwa Miss District of Columbia 2003, wacce ta zo ta biyu har zuwa Miss District of Columbia 2001, kuma ita ce ta farko da ta tsere zuwa Miss Metropolitan Manhattan 2004. Kyautar Songhai mafi yawanci jaruma ce, kuma ta yi babbar hira, da kuma tambaya kan mataki a kusan kowace shafin da ta shiga gasar. 

## Ma'anar Suna
Safiya na nufin "mace mai hankali da tsarkakakkiya" a cikin yaren Swahili . Songhai ta fito ne daga mafi girma kuma an sami cikakken iko a Masarautar yamma ta Yammacin Afirka, yanzu Mali, Burkina Faso da Nijar, waɗanda shugabanninsu suka jaddada ilimi da zamantakewa, tattalin arziki da daidaito tsakanin mata. Zuriyarta sun fito ne daga Yarbawa, Bantu, Kpelle, Bamileke da mutanen Mandika na Yammaci da Afirka ta Kudu. 

## Manazarta

## Hanyoyin haɗin waje

* Safiya Songhai   
* Gidan yanar gizon Mpirefilms 
* Kamfanin yanar gizon Miss Black USA 
* Miss Black Massachusetts Amurka shafin yanar gizo 
* Shafin yanar gizo Miss America 2004    
* Alamar kasuwanci ta Mpirefilms 
* Labarin ''New York Times''