Suzanna Ogunjami

**Suzanna Ogunjami** ta kasance mai zane-zane na asalin Ibo (Nijeriya).  Ta yi hijira daga Yammacin Afirka zuwa Jamaica kuma zuwa Birnin New York, inda ta kasance mai aiki daga 1928-1934 kuma ta zama mace ta farko ta Afirka da ta sami nune-nunen solo a cikin tashar kasuwanci a Amurka. Ta kuma yi amfani da sunan **Suzanne Ogunjami Wilson** . 

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
Ba a san ranar haihuwar Ogunjami ba, kuma bayanan da ta rubuta sun bambanta da kididdigar Amurka da bayanan aure, wanda ya bayyana cewa an haife ta ne a Jamaica (Ogunjami ta yi ikirarin Najeriya a matsayin wurin haihuwarta).  A lokacin da take ƙarama, ta koma Jamaica inda ta kammala karatun firamare, sannan ta koma Birnin New York a shekarar 1921. Ta dauki darussan a cikin masana'antu da zane-zane a Kwalejin Malamai ta Jami'ar Columbia,  ta kammala karatu tare da digiri na farko na Kimiyya a 1928, da kuma digiri na Masters of Fine Arts a fannin ilimin zane-zane.

## Ayyuka da aiki

Ogunjami ta bayyana kanta ta hanyar matsakaici da yawa, gami da aikin ƙarfe, bugawa, da kayan ado, amma an fi saninta da zane-zanen ta. Batutuwan zane-zanen ta sun haɗa da hotuna na mutanen Afirka da matan Afirka da ke yin gashi. Ayyukanta sun nuna sha'awarta a ilimin addini da kuma nuna mutanen Afirka a matsayin mutane masu ƙwarewa, don magance ra'ayoyin da ke gabatar da mutanen Afirka a cikin rashin wayewa.

### Nuni
Yayinda Ogunjami ke karatu a Kwalejin Malamai, daya daga cikin zane-zanen mai na farko, *Sunflower,* an nuna shi a baje kolin Gidauniyar Harmon na 1928 a Gidan Duniya na New York .  Still Life, wani daga cikin zane-zanen ta, an nuna shi ta Harmon Foundation a wani wuri da ba a sani ba daga 1929 zuwa 1933. A watan Disamba na shekara ta 1934, tana da nune-nunen mace daya a Delphic Studios a New York wanda ya hada da kayan ado, aikin ƙarfe, da zane-zane ashirin da bakwai. An rubuta sharhin Ogunjami a kan daya daga cikin zane-zanenta, mai taken Nupe Princess, a buɗewar nune-nunen kuma ana iya samun sa a cikin abubuwan da aka fitar na A Study of Negro Artists, fim na shekarun 1930 wanda Gidauniyar Harmon ta tallafawa.

A watan Maris da Afrilu 1935, Ogunjami tana da aikin da aka gabatar a Gidan Tarihi na Jihar New Jersey, a Trenton, a cikin "Fasahar Fasaha da Ayyuka".  A cikin 1936, an haɗa aikinta a cikin nune-nunen "Paintings and Sculpture by American Negro Artists" a Renaissance Society a Chicago a 1936. An haɗa aikinta a cikin nune-nunen "African Modernism in America, 1947-67" na 2023 a Phillips Collection.

### Sanannun Ayyuka

* *Sunflower*
* *Rayuwa*
* *Gimbiya mai suna Nupe*
* *Cikakken Magnolia*

## Rayuwa ta mutum
A shekara ta 1915, Ogunjami ya auri Matthew Wilson, wani limamin Episcopal, kamar yadda aka nuna a cikin takardar shaidar auren Birnin New York (ƙididdigar Amurka ta 1930 ta rubuta a shekara ta 1916).  Rubuce-rubucen kididdigar Amurka sun nuna cewa dan uwan Ogunjami, Francis H. Bowen, da dan uwanta, Lena Benford, sun zauna tare da Ogunjami da mijinta. Ta bi mijinta cikin Bangaskiyar Episcopalian bayan sun yi aure, amma rubuce-rubuce ba su nuna abin da addinin ta ya kasance a baya ba.

### Komawa zuwa Saliyo
Don bin sha'awar Wilson na komawa ƙasarsa, Saliyo, Ogunjami da mijinta sun bar New York har abada zuwa Freetown a cikin 1935. [1] Yayinda mijinta ya shiga cikin cocin Anglican a can, Ogunjami ya ci gaba da hulɗa da Gidauniyar Harmon, yana gaya musu cewa burinta shine gina makaranta, don "koyar da 'yan mata da maza, ba kawai yadda za a yi amfani da kwakwalwarsu ba har ma da hannayensu, da kuma dacewa da su don sabis mai amfani a nan gaba. " [1] Daga nan sai ta kafa Cibiyar Nazarin Yammacin Afirka da Masana'antu a Freetown, [1] da kuma wata makarantar da ke da nisan kilomita goma sha biyu a waje da birnin. [2][2]

Baya ga kokarin iliminta, Ogunjami ta ci gaba da yin fasaha, musamman buga takardu, da kuma ba da lokaci ga hidimar addini. Tana da nune-nunen solo guda biyu a 1935 da 1937. 

## Mutuwa
Ba a san ranar Ogunjami da wurin mutuwarta ba;  wasiƙa ta ƙare tsakanin ita da Gidauniyar Harmon bayan 1941.  Ɗaya daga cikin alamun game da bacewarta daga rubuce-rubuce da kuma wasiƙu an haɗa shi a cikin wata wasika, mai kwanan wata 1960, daga mai zane-zane na zamani na Krio Miranda Burney-Nicol zuwa Evelyn S. Brown, mataimakin darektan Gidauniyar Harmon, wanda ya bayyana imanin Burney-Ricol cewa Ogunjami ya koma Jamaica kuma an yi tunanin ya mutu.

## Manazarta