Constance Porter Uzelac

**Constance Porter Uzelac** (1939-2012),  wadda aka fi sani da **Coni Porter Uzelac**, ta kasance mai kula da ɗakin karatu na likita kuma mai adana bayanai a Amurka.  Ta kasance Babban Darakta na Cibiyar Bincike ta Dorothy Porter Wesley .  Ita 'yar Dorothy Porter Wesley ce da James Amos Porter,  kuma ta taimaka wa Wesley da rubuta littattafai da yawa.  Ta kuma yi aiki a kan tsara dukkan ayyukan mahaifiyarta da aka ajiye a Cibiyar Nazarin Afirka ta Afirka. Katalogin mahaifinta ya kasance wani ɓangare na nune-nunen James A. Porter: From Me To You wanda aka nuna a wurare daban-daban a fadin Amurka.

## Ayyuka
An haife ta a Washington DC,  Uzelac ta sami digiri a cikin karatun ɗakin karatu kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin mai kula da ɗakin karatu na likita ga mafi yawan rayuwarta. Bayan rasuwar mahaifinta a shekara ta 1987, ita da mijinta sun bar gidansu a California don su kasance kusa da mahaifiyarta Dorothy a Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A lokacin, Dorothy Porter tana aiki a kan shirya tushe a kan William Cooper Nell don rubuta cikakken tarihin rayuwarsa. Uzelac ya shiga don taimakawa tare da bincike, da farko na ɗan lokaci sannan kuma a matsayin marubuci na dindindin don aikin.

Sa'an nan, lokacin da mahaifiyarta ta mutu a 1995, Uzelac ta tura cikakken tarin kayan da iyayenta suka mallaka da farko zuwa wani ɗakin karatu a Washington DC sannan zuwa wani gida a Fort Lauderdale, tare da tarin da aka samo asali a cikin akwatuna 720 daban-daban. Tarin da Uzelac ya tsara ya haɗa da ba kawai rubuce-rubuce da litattafan dafa abinci daga bayi da bayin Afirka ba, har ma da kayan da ba na wallafe-wallafen ba kamar zane-zane, zane-zane. Masanin tarihi Charles L. Blockson ne ya lura da su musamman saboda ɓangarorin da ke cikin tarin Uzelac galibi suna ƙunshe da sa hannu na gaskiya.

A cikin 1999, har yanzu tana cikin yanke shawara game da abin da za ta yi da tarin da kuma yadda ya kamata a nuna shi ga jama'a. Kungiyoyin da ke da sha'awar sun haɗa da Laburaren Majalisa, Laburaren Bincike na Afirka da Cibiyar Al'adu, da Smithsonian .  Daga nan sai ta shirya tarin a cikin ɗakin karatu na Dorothy Porter Wesley, wanda ta yi aiki a matsayin babban darakta na. Saboda sa hannu a cikin kirkirar Laburaren Bincike na Afirka da Cibiyar Al'adu a Fort Lauderdale, ta yanke shawarar ba da gudummawa ga wani ɓangare na tarin ga cibiyar.

An nuna adadi mai yawa na zane-zanen mahaifinta a matsayin nune-nunen gallery na watanni da yawa kuma an yi amfani da ƙarin abubuwa 80 a cikin gallery mai tafiya a fadin Amurka. An kuma ba da kyauta da yawa ga gidan gwamnan Maryland da gidan diflomasiyya. Don tarin littattafan mahaifiyarta, an ba da rance biyu ga Smithsonian da 50 a matsayin nuni na ɗakin karatu. Yawancin tarin ta suna cikin Babban Laburaren Broward County mai taken The Archives of Dorothy Porter Wesley . Ta kafa jerin shafukan yanar gizo na ilimi a shekara ta 2003 wanda ke nuna tarihin Afirka. Baya ga aikinta na warkarwa, ta kuma yi aiki a kan kwamitin reshen Greater Fort Lauderdale na Sister Cities International . Uzelac ya mutu a watan Afrilun 2012 saboda rikitarwa daga ciwon daji.

## Ayyuka

* Constance Porter Uzelac (2000). *Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995): Mai kula da Laburaren Afirka da Bibliophile*
* Nell, William C., Dorothy Porter Wesley, da Constance Porter Uzelac (2002). *William Cooper Nell, ɗan Afirka na ƙarni na sha tara, ɗan tarihi, mai haɗin kai*
* Constance Porter Uzelac (2011) (ed.). *Baƙo a Ƙasar Ɗaya: Tarihin Charles H. Wesley* (ba a buga shi ba) 

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