Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi

**Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi,** (née Jadesimi) (24 ga Satumba, 1939 -) **ƙwararriyar masaniyar tsirrai da tsirrai,** ne a Nijeriya. Ta kasance farfesa a ilimin kimiyyar halittu da muhalli a Jami'ar Ibadan . Ta gabatar da nazarin ilimin kimiyyar ƙasa da kuma palaeoethnobotany a Najeriya   kuma ita ce ta kafa da kuma shugaban ƙungiyar Palynological Association of Nigeria.

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Sowunmi ne a garin Kano, Arewacin Najeriya a ranar 24 ga Satumbar, 1939. Mahaifinta fasto ne a Cocin Najeriya . Ta yi karatun BSc a fannin Botany na Musamman a Sashen Botany, a Kwalejin Jami'a da ke Ibadan, ta kammala a 1962. Ta sami digiri na digiri na biyu a 1963 don gudanar da bincike na Phd a cikin ilimin zamani . Don gudanar da bincike a cikin ilimin zamani, Sowunmi ya tafi Sweden don yin karatu tare da Gunnar Erdtman, wanda ke kula da digirgir. Ta yi karatun digirinta na uku a jami’ar Ibadan a shekarar 1967. 

## Ayyuka
A shekarar 1967 aka naɗa Sowunmi a matsayin jami'in bincike na digiri na farko a sashen Archeology Unit a Cibiyar Nazarin Afirka, Jami'ar Ibadan . A cikin 1971 ta kafa Laboratory Palynology na Jami’ar Nijeriya. Sowunmi an naɗa ta Farfesa na Ilimin Zamani da Muhalli a Archeology a 1982. A tsawon rayuwarta Sowunmi ta rike mukamai daban-daban na ziyarar, a cikin 1997 a Sashen Archaeology na Afirka, Uppsala University, da kuma a 1998 a Institute of Archaeology, University College London da kuma Departments of African Archeology da African Archaeobotany, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität .  A lokacin da take gudanar da ayyukanta ta kula da daliban PhD guda bakwai,  kuma an lura da ita kasancewarta malama mai kwazo.  Sowunmi ya yi aiki kan al'amuran da suka shafi jinsi a fannin ilimin kimiya na kayan tarihi a Najeriya, gami da sauya taken kwasa-kwasai masu inganci. 

Sowunmi shi ne wanda ya kafa kuma shugaban kungiyar nazarin halittu ta Nijeriya, kuma shugaban kungiyar Tattalin Arzikin Afirka ta Yamma. 

## Bincike
Nasarorin binciken da Sowunmi ya samu sun haɗa da farkon gano shekaru da yanayin rayuwar halittar Gwandu, bayanin farko na kwayar halittar Eocene na Tsarin Ogwashi-Asaba,  binciken farko na Late Quaternary da tarihin muhalli na Najeriya,  da kuma binciken farko game da fulawa daga wurin da aka samo kayan tarihi a Nijeriya. 

## Kyauta da girmamawa
A shekara ta 2003, Sowunmi ta sami digirin girmamawa na Dakta na Falsafa a cikin Ilimin ɗan Adam ta Jami'ar Uppsala don gane da ƙwarewarta na ƙwarewa da bincike da koyarwa a cikin ilimin kimiyyar tarihin muhalli da paleobotany .  

## Zaɓaɓɓun wallafe-wallafe

* MA Sowunmi. 1972. Kwayar halittar fure na Palmae da ɗaukar nauyin haraji. *Binciken Palaeobotany da Palynology*
* MA Sowunmi. 1973. Lenauren ganyayen shuke-shuke a Nijeriya: I. Nau'in Woody. *Grana*
* RJ du Chêne, MS Onyike & MA Sowunmi 1978. Wasu sabbin furen karen Eocene na Tsarin Ogwashi-Asaba, kudu maso gabashin Najeriya *.* *Revista Española de Micropaleontología* 10 (2), shafi. 285-322.
* MA Sowunmi. 1981. Bangarorin Canjin Canjin Quarshen Quaternary a Afirka ta Yamma. *Jaridar Biogeography* 8: 457-474.
* MA Sowunmi. 1985. Farkon aikin noma a Afirka ta Yamma: shaidun tsirrai. *Anthropology na yanzu*
* MA Sowunmi. 1995. Lenauren ganyayyaki na tsire-tsire na Najeriya: II. Dabbobin Woody. *Grana* 34: 120-141.
* MA Sowunmi. 1998. Ilimin kimiyyar halittu a Afirka ta yamma : yanayin horo a cikin ANDAH (BW) et al., *Afirka: ƙalubalen ilimin ilimin kimiya na kayan tarihi.* Ibadan, Heinemann Littattafan Ilimi, pp.&nbsp;65-100
* MA Sowunmi, 1998. Bayan ilimin kimiyyar ilimin kimiyya a Afirka: Tsarin ɗan adam. *Nazarin Archaeological Afirka*

## Manazarta