John Kani

**Bonisile John Kani OIS OBE** (an haife shi a ranar 30 ga watan Agustan shekara ta 1942) ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne na Afirka ta Kudu. An san shi da nuna T'Chaka a cikin fina-finai na Marvel Cinematic Universe Captain America: Civil War (2016) da Black Panther (2018), Rafiki a cikin The Lion King (2019) da Colonel Ulenga a cikin fina'in Netflix Murder Mystery (2019) da Murder Mytery 2 (2023).

## Farkon rayuwar mutum
Kani was born on 30 August 1942 in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth In the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. In 1975, after appearing in Athol Fugard's anti-apartheid play *Sizwe Banzi Is Dead*, which he also co-wrote, in the United States, Kani returned to South Africa. There, he received a phone call saying that his father wanted to see him. On his way there, he was surrounded by police who beat him and left him for dead. His left eye was lost as a result of the incident, and he now wears a prosthesis which is technically a glass eye.

Ɗansa Atandwa shi ma ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne, wanda ya fara fitowa a gidan talabijin na Amurka a jerin shirye-shiryen CW Life Is Wild, kuma ya buga ƙaramin halin Kani T'Chaka a *Black Panther* . 

## Ayyuka
Kani joined The Serpent Players (a group of actors whose first performance was in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception.

Wadannan sun biyo bayan shahararren Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island, wanda aka rubuta tare da Athol Fugard da Winston Ntshona, a farkon shekarun 1970. Kani ya kuma sami Kyautar Olivier Award saboda rawar da ya taka a My Children! *[[Athol Fugard|Yaran na!Afirka ta!]]*

An yi aikin Kani a ko'ina a duniya, gami da New York, inda shi da Winston Ntshona suka lashe Kyautar Tony a 1975 don Sizwe Banzi Is Dead (wanda ya gudana don wasanni 159) da The Island .'  An gabatar da waɗannan wasannin biyu a cikin repertory a Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Edison don jimlar wasanni 52.

A shekara ta 1987 Kani ya buga Othello a wasan kwaikwayon William Shakespeare na wannan sunan a Afirka ta Kudu, wanda har yanzu yana ƙarƙashin wariyar launin fata. "Aƙalla zan iya sumbace Desdemona ba tare da barin wani abu ba, "in ji shi a lokacin.

Babu wani abu sai Gaskiya (2002) shine farkonsa a matsayin marubucin wasan kwaikwayo kuma an fara yin shi a Johannesburg) Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Kasuwanci a Johannesburg. Wannan wasan yana faruwa ne a bayan wariyar launin fata a Afirka ta Kudu kuma bai shafi rikice-rikice tsakanin fararen fata da baƙi ba, amma rarrabuwa tsakanin baƙi da suka zauna a Afirka ta kudu don yaƙi da wariyar launinariya, da waɗanda suka bar kawai don dawowa lokacin da mulkin da aka ƙi ya ninka. Ya lashe kyautar Fleur du Cap Awards ta 2003 don mafi kyawun ɗan wasan kwaikwayo da mafi kyawun sabon wasan Afirka ta Kudu.  A cikin wannan shekarar, an kuma ba shi lambar yabo ta Obie ta musamman saboda gudummawar da ya bayar ga gidan wasan kwaikwayo a Amurka.

Kani ita ce mai kula da zartarwa na Gidauniyar gidan wasan kwaikwayo ta John Kani, wanda ya kafa kuma darektan Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na John Kani kuma shugaban Majalisar Fasaha ta Kasa ta SA. Ya fito a matsayin T'Chaka a cikin Marvel Studios blockbusters Captain America: Civil War (2016) da *Black Panther* (2018). Gaskiyar cewa Kani ɗan asalin Xhosa ne ya jagoranci Chadwick Boseman, wanda ya buga ɗansa T'Challa, don yin wannan yaren Wakanda, da kuma koyon dukkan al'amuran Xhosa, kodayake bai taɓa nazarin yaren ba.

A cikin 2019, Kani ya bayyana a cikin fim din Netflix Murder Mystery inda ya buga Colonel Ulenga . Daga nan sai ya furta Rafiki a cikin *[[The Lion King|Sarkin Zaki]]* (mai nuna hoto na fim din Disney). 

Wasan Kani, *Kunene da Sarki*, haɗin gwiwar Kamfanin Royal Shakespeare da Fugard Theatre, an buga shi a Stratford-upon-Avon Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Swan a Stratford-upon-Avon a cikin 2019 kafin ya koma Cape Town. Ya yi fice tare da Antony Sher . 

## Sauran yabo da kyaututtuka
A ranar 20 ga watan Fabrairun shekara ta 2010, Kani ta sami lambar yabo ta SAFTA Lifetime. Ya kuma sami lambar yabo ta Avanti Hall of Fame daga fina-finai na Afirka ta Kudu, talabijin, da masana'antun talla, lambar yabo ta M-Net Plum da lambar yabo ta Clio a New York. Sauran kyaututtuka sun haɗa da Kyautar Gidauniyar Al'adun Zaman Lafiya ta Hiroshima na shekara ta 2000 da Kyautar Olive Schreiner na shekara ta 2005. An zabe shi na 51 a cikin Top 100 Great South African a shekara ta 2004. 

A shekara ta 2006, Jami'ar Cape Town ta ba shi digiri na girmamawa.  Jami'ar Metropolitan ta Nelson Mandela ta nada shi a matsayin Dokta na Falsafa a shekarar 2013. 

A cikin 2016 Kani ya sami girmamawa ta kasa ta Order of Ikhamanga a Silver, saboda "Kyakkyawan gudummawar da ya bayar ga gidan wasan kwaikwayo kuma, ta hanyar wannan, gwagwarmayar da ba ta da launin fata, ba ta da jima'i da kuma dimokuradiyya ta Afirka ta Kudu".

Babban gidan wasan kwaikwayo na gidan wasan kwaikwayo a Newtown, Johannesburg, an sake masa suna The John Kani Theatre don girmama shi.

A cikin 2020 an ba shi digiri na girmamawa daga Jami'ar Witwatersrand  Kwanan nan, a cikin 2021, Cibiyar Da Vinci ta ba John Kani Da Vinci Laureate.

A cikin 2023 an ba shi lambar yabo ta girmamawa daga Gwamnatin Burtaniya don hidimomi ga wasan kwaikwayo.

## Wasanni

* *Sizwe Banzi ya mutu* (1972) (wanda aka rubuta tare da Athol Fugard da Winston Ntshona) 
* *Tsibirin* (1973) (wanda aka rubuta tare da Athol Fugard da Winston Ntshona) 
* *Bayani Bayan An kama shi a karkashin Dokar Laifi* (wanda aka rubuta tare da Athol Fugard da Winston Ntshona) 
* *Yaranni Afirka!*  (actor) 
* *Babu Abin da Sai Gaskiya* (2002) (marubucin wasan kwaikwayo) 
* The Tempest (2008) (actor a matsayin Caliban, a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Baxter, Cape Town; Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon; da kuma yawon shakatawa na Richmond, Leeds, Bath, Nottingham, Sheffield) 
* Missing (2014) (actor kuma marubucin wasan kwaikwayo) 
* *Kunene da Sarki* (2019) (actor da kuma playwriter) 

## Fim da talabijin

## Wasan kwaikwayo

* *Babu Abin da Sai Gaskiya* (2002) 

## Manazarta