Obiwu

**Obioma Paul Iwuanyanwu** (an haife shi a shekara ta 1962) wanda aka fi sani da **Obiwu**, marubuci ne kuma farfesa a Najeriya-Amurka. Ya tsira daga Kisan kare dangi na Igbo a Najeriya (1966-1970), kuma yana koyar da wallafe-wallafen duniya da ka'idar mahimmanci a Sashen Humanities a Central State University.malamin jami ah ne

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An haifi Obiwu ne a Umuahia, babban birnin Jihar Abia a kudu maso gabas Najeriya. Iyayensa, Ichie Njoku Iwuanyanwu da Lolo Igbeaku Iwuanyanwu, Katolika ne kuma suna gudanar da kasuwancin otal da gidan cin abinci. Rikicin tashin hankali da ya ɓarke a Najeriya tare da kisan gilla a Arewacin Najeriya (1966) da Biafran War (1967-70). An kama su a cikin bombardment na Umuahia da jiragen abokan gaba na Najeriya suka yi, an tilasta wa iyalin Obiwu su tsere daga birnin a 1968 zuwa garinsu na kakanninsa na Umueze II, Ehime Mbano, a Jihar Imo ta yanzu har zuwa karshen yakin. Yana da shekaru uku lokacin da kisan kare dangi na Najeriya ya fara a kan Mutanen Igbo, kuma hudu lokacin da yakin basasa ya ɓarke.

Wadannan rikice-rikice, wadanda suka yi ikirarin kimanin rayuka miliyan uku,  sun shafi iyalinsa sosai kuma sun bar ra'ayi mara kyau a kan Obiwu. Kamar dubban sauran yara tsakanin shekaru daya zuwa biyar, Obiwu ya sha wahala daga tasirin kwashiorkor, sakamakon toshewar Gwamnatin Najeriya game da shigo da abinci da kayan agaji zuwa Biafra.

Ya ci gaba da karatun harshen Ingilishi da adabi a Jami'ar Jihar Imo (yanzu Abia State University). Ya kammala karatu tare da girmamawa a shekarar 1986, tare da kananan yara a Tarihi da Harshe. Don shekara guda bayan digiri na National Youth Service, ya koyar a Makarantar Sakandare ta Gwamnati a Madagali, wani gari na iyaka a ƙarƙashin jerin Dutsen Mandara tsakanin Arewacin Najeriya da Arewacin Kamaru.

A shekara ta 1990, Obiwu ya sami digiri na biyu daga Jami'ar Jos tare da rubutun kan litattafan George Orwell da Wole Soyinka . Daga nan aka dauke shi a Jami'ar Jos a matsayin malami a Sashen Ingilishi inda ya koyar da shayari, wasan kwaikwayo, fiction, da rubuce-rubuce masu kirkiro. A lokacin da yake a Jami'ar Jos, Obiwu ya buga littattafai biyu: Rituals of the Sun (waƙoƙi) da *Igbos na Arewacin Najeriya* (bincike na farko).

A shekara ta 1997, Obiwu ya koma Amurka don ci gaba da karatun digirinsa a Jami'ar Syracuse, daga baya ya sami digirinsa na PhD a Turanci da Nazarin rubutu. A shekara ta 2002, ya fara koyarwa a Sashen Humanities a Jami'ar Jihar Tsakiya (CSU) a Wilberforce, Ohio. A shekara ta 2005, ya sake mayar da hankali ga Cibiyar Rubuce-rubuce ta CSU, kuma a wannan shekarar an nada shi kocin kungiyar CSU wacce ta lashe kofin kusa da na karshe a gasar zakarun kasa ta Honda Campus All-Star Challenge a Orlando, Florida .   Wasu daga cikin tsoffin ɗalibansa, kamar marubucin Helon Habila, sun ci gaba da yin aiki mai ban sha'awa.

Obiwu co-edita ne kuma mai ba da gudummawa ga The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo . "Nuna nuna wadataccen bambancin al'adu da ilimi [...kuma] sun bambanta a cikin hanyoyin bincike, rubutun [wanda ke cikin littafin] an haɗa su cikin burinsu na bincika sabbin hanyoyin ka'idoji, sake ƙarfafa tattaunawar game da yadda ake karantawa da nazarin litattafan Afirka".

Obiwu a halin yanzu yana zaune a Xenia tare da matarsa, Ifeyinwa, da yaransu.

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