Elizabeth Watkins

**Yuni Knowles** (24 Yuni 1923 - 14 Oktoba 2012),  wanda aka fi sani da sunanta **Elizabeth Watkins**, marubuciya ce ta Ingilishi, wacce ta girma a Kenya, inda iyayenta - Oscar Ferris Watkins (1877-1943) da Olga Florence Watkins (née Baillie Grohman) (1889-1947) - suka fara gonar kofi a wajen Nairobi, kuma daga baya suka yi karatu a Kwalejin St Anne, Oxford.

A shekara ta 1941, tana da shekaru 18 kawai, ta yi ƙarya game da shekarunta don shiga cikin Sojojin Sama na Mata a matsayin jami'in ƙididdiga. Da take aiki a Alkahira a tsawo na Yakin Arewacin Afirka na takwas, ta yi aiki a sansanin siginar Heliopolis da sauran wuraren sirri da ke fassara manyan siginar sirri ga Babban Kwamandan Burtaniya, gami da watsa zirga-zirgar Ultra ta Jamus, bayanan sirri da aka dauka da sirri har ma ba a raba shi kai tsaye tare da sauran Allies na Yaƙin Duniya na II ba. Daga baya aka uba ta Kenya don ta kasance tare da mahaifinta mai mutuwa, sannan aka tura ta Seychelles,  inda ta goyi bayan aiki mai haɗari na ma'aikatan Catalina na sojojin saman Kanada da na hadin gwiwa, suna tashi da muhimman ayyukan yaki da jirgin ruwa don kare hanyoyin teku zuwa Indiya. Daga baya, ta ba da gudummawa don ci gaba da aiki mai aiki an tura ta zuwa Caserta don yin cyphers don Ci gaban Allied zuwa Kudancin Italiya.

A shekara ta 1949 ta auri Oliver Staniforth Knowles (1920-2008)  a Nairobi, sun hadu a Jami'ar Oxford kuma suka koma Kenya inda yake cikin Gudanar da mulkin mallaka. Suna da 'ya'ya maza huɗu.

Watkins ta mutu a ranar 14 ga Oktoba, 2012, tana da shekaru 89 a gidanta a Oxford, bayan gajeren rashin lafiya.

## Littattafai

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: A Biography of 'Wouse' (Leslie Whitehouse) mai kula da mulkin mallaka kuma Kwamishinan Gundumar a Turkana, Kenya a tsakiyar shekarun 1950 a lokacin da Jomo Kenyatta ya shiga cikin Birtaniya a Lokitaung sannan Lodwar. Da yake yana da alhakin riƙe shi lafiya a cikin bauta, Whitehouse ya kafa abota da Kenyatta wanda daga baya ya rinjayi ra'ayi da alaƙar Kenyatta da fararen Kenya.

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Tarihin mahaifinta Oscar Ferris Watkins, Mai Gudanar da mulkin mallaka kuma Kwamandan 400,000 - mai karfi Carrier Corps a Yakin Gabashin Afirka a yakin duniya na farko;

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: Tarihin mahaifiyarta, Olga Florence Watkins, 'yar William Adolf Baillie Grohman, tsohuwar 'yar Burtaniya daga dangin Anglo-Austrian wanda ya tafi Kenya a shekara ta 1914 don noma. Gwauruwa tana da shekaru 25 lokacin da aka kashe mijinta, Douglas Thompson, a yaƙin Kisumu, Richard Meinertzhagen mai banƙyama ya ɗauke ta aiki don Jamusanci mai kyau don taimakawa a aikin leken asiri. Wani majagaba mai kuzari, manomi da ma'aikacin zamantakewa, ta zama mace ta farko a cikin majalisar Nairobi City, kuma memba na Majalisar Dokokin Kenya, an zabe ta don ɗaukar kujerar da aka kashe Lord Erroll ya rike a baya. A matsayinta na darakta na farko na Ilimi na Mata a Kenya ta kasance mai ba da shawara game da haƙƙoƙi da wuraren ilimi ga matan Afirka.

## Tarihin rayuwa

* Jami'in Cypher - a Alkahira, Kenya, Caserta (2008) Pen Press  . 

: Labarin farko na abubuwan da marubucin ya samu a Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu a matsayin jami'in RAF Cypher a cikin WAAFs, ƙididdiga da ƙididdigar ƙididdiga a fagen, ta amfani da sigar Burtaniya ta na'urar Enigma.

## Dubi kuma

* Jirgin Ruwa
* Jomo Kenyatta
* Tarihin Kenya
* Richard Meinertzhagen
* William Adolf Baillie Grohman - kakan
* Emily Quihampton - tsohuwar
* Oscar Ferris Watkins - mahaifin

## Manazarta