Tukufu Zuberi

**Tukufu Zuberi** (an Haife shi Afrilu 26, 1959) masanin ilimin zamantakewa ne ɗan Amurka, mai shirya fina-finai, mai sukar zamantakewa, malami, kuma marubuci. Zuberi ya fito a cikin shirye-shirye da yawa kan Afirka da ƴan Afirka, ciki har da *America's Stepchild* (2002), da kuma *500 Years Later* (2005). Yana daya daga cikin masu daukar nauyin shirin PBS na Masu Gano Tarihi na tsawon lokaci. A matsayin wanda ya kafa kamfanin samar da fina-finai na kansa,  ya samar da fim din 'Yancin Afirka, wanda aka fara a bikin Baƙar fata na San Diego a cikin Janairu 2013. Shi ne Farfesa na Iyali na Lasry na *Race Relations*, farfesa kuma shugaban sashen ilimin zamantakewa, kuma farfesa na karatun Africana a Jami'ar Pennsylvania.

## Tarihin Rayuwa
An haifi Antonio McDaniel ga iyaye Willie da Annie McDaniel, kuma ya tashi a cikin gidajen Oakland, California a cikin 1970s, ya canza sunansa zuwa Tukufu Zuberi, a harshen Swahili ma'ana "fiye da yabo" da kuma "ƙarfi". Zuberi ya ce "ya dauki sunan ne saboda sha'awar yin alaka tare da wani muhimmin lokaci da mutane ke kalubalantar abin da ake nufi da zama mutum".

Zuberi ya sami digiri na farko daga Jihar San Jose a 1981, digiri na biyu a Sacramento State a 1985, da PhD daga Jami'ar Chicago a 1989. A 1988, ya shiga jami'ar Pennsylvania, inda ya zama *Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations*, shugaban sashen zamantakewa na Afirka da 2017 daraktan tsakanin 2017. tsakanin 2002 da 2008. Ya taba zama malami mai ziyara a jami’ar Makerere da ke Kampala, Uganda, da jami’ar Dar es Salaam da ke Tanzania.

Binciken Zuberi ya mayar da hankali ne kan kabilanci da al'ummar Afirka da Afirka. Ya gudanar da bincike a fagagen kididdigar zamantakewa da nazarin yawan jama'a (demography). Ya kasance bako malami a kwalejoji da jami'o'i da shirye-shiryen talabijin.

A cikin 2013, Zuberi ya gabatar da shirinsa na farko, 'Yancin Afirka. An fara fim ɗin a bikin Baƙar fata na San Diego a cikin Janairu 2013. Fim din ya tattauna ne kan farkon yunkurin ’yancin kai da kuma matsalolin da yunkurin neman ’yancin kai ya fuskanta a Afirka.

## Sana'ar ilimi
Farfesa Tukufu Zuberi shi ne Farfesa na Iyali na Lasry, kuma Farfesa a fannin ilimin zamantakewa da nazarin Afirka a Jami'ar Pennsylvania. Ya taba zama malami mai ziyara a jami'ar Makerere da ke Kampala, Uganda; Jami'ar Dar es Salaam a Tanzaniya; a cikin 2014 ya rike shugaban Cibiyar Nazarin Harkokin Ilimin Harkokin Ilimi ta Tarayya, Jami'ar Tarayya ta Minas Gerais (UFMG), a Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil; kuma a cikin 2016 ya yi aiki a matsayin fitaccen farfesa mai ziyara na Gidauniyar Coordination Foundation for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel-CAPES a Jami'ar Brasilia da Jami'ar Tarayya ta Bahia. A lokacin da yake Jami'ar Pennsylvania ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban kungiyar Graduate Group in Demography, darektan shirin nazarin Afirka, darektan shirin nazarin Afro-Amurka, da kuma babban darektan cibiyar nazarin Afirka. Daga 2002 zuwa 2008, ya zama darektan kafa Cibiyar Nazarin Afirka. Daga 2007 zuwa 2013, ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban sashen nazarin zamantakewa.

Ayyukan ilimi na Zuberi sun bambanta daga koyarwa zuwa nazarin alƙaluma na yau da kullun, ƙirƙira kayan tarihi da bincike, rubuce-rubuce, mai kula da nune-nunen kayan tarihi, ɗaukar jerin shirye-shiryen TV (Ganonin Tarihin PBS), da samarwa da shirya shirye-shirye. Ayyukansa na haɗin gwiwa ne, tsaka-tsaki, da tsauri na ilimi. Ayyukansa sun bambanta daga ilimin zamantakewa mai wuyar gaske zuwa mafi taushin ɗan adam.

Bukatun bincikensa sun mayar da hankali kan ilimin zamantakewa, alƙaluma, da Nazarin Afirka. Zuberi shi ne marubucin "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Coloning Laberiya a cikin karni na sha tara", wanda Jami'ar Chicago Press ta buga a 1995; "Yafi Kauri fiye da Jini: Yadda Ƙididdigan Racial Lie", wanda Jami'ar Minnesota Press ta buga a 2001; "Más espeso que la sangre: la mentira del analisis estadístico según teorías biológicas de la raza", Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, ya buga a cikin 2013; da "Independence Africa: Yadda Afirka Ke Siffata Duniya", wanda Rowman & Littlefield Publishers suka buga a cikin 2015. Ya gyara ko kuma ya daidaita juzu'i takwas. Waɗannan kundin da aka gyara sun haɗa da "White Logic, White Hanyoyi: Wariyar launin fata da Hanyar" (tare da Eduardo Bonilla-Silva) wanda Ƙungiyar Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Amirka ta ba da lambar yabo ta Oliver Cromwell Cox.

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