Jonty Driver

**Charles Jonathan Direba** (19 ga Agusta 1939 - 21 ga Mayu 2023), wanda aka fi sani da **Jonty Driver**, ɗan gwagwarmayar yaƙi da wariyar launin fata ne na Afirka ta Kudu, fursunonin siyasa, masanin ilimi, mawaƙi kuma marubuci.

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Charles Jonathan Driver a Cape Town a shekara ta 1939 amma ya shafe shekarun yakin duniya na biyu a Kroonstad da Cradock tare da mahaifiyarsa da ƙanensa da kakansa, wanda shi ne shugaban cocin Anglican a can. A wannan lokacin, mahaifin Direba ya yi hidimar yaƙi a Arewacin Afirka, kuma sojojin Axis sun kama shi a Tobruk, yana kashe sauran yakin a matsayin fursuna na yaƙi a Italiya da Jamus. Lokacin da ya dawo Afirka ta Kudu, dangin sun ƙaura zuwa Grahamstown a Gabashin Cape, inda aka naɗa mahaifinsa limami a Kwalejin St. Andrew kuma daga baya Jonty ya yi karatunsa.  

## Kwanakin dalibai
Driver yayi karatun digirinsa na farko a Jami'ar Cape Town (UCT). An zabe shi a matsayin shugaban kungiyar daliban Afirka ta Kudu a 1963 da kuma a 1964. A watan Agusta da Satumba 1964, 'yan sanda sun tsare shi ba tare da gurfanar da shi ba, kuma an tsare shi a gidan kurkuku na tsawon makonni biyar a karkashin dokar tsare mutane na kwanaki 90, watakila saboda zarginsa da hannu a cikin kungiyar Resistance Movement na Afirka . Bayan an sake shi nan take ya tafi Ingila.  Ya tafi Trinity College, Oxford, don yin karatu a M.Phil. 

Yayin da yake Oxford, hukumomin Afirka ta Kudu sun ƙi sabunta fasfo ɗinsa kuma ya zama ba shi da ƙasa tsawon shekaru da yawa, daga ƙarshe ya zama ɗan ƙasar Burtaniya. Fiye da shekaru ashirin, an hana shi komawa Afirka ta Kudu. 

## Yi aiki a cikin ilimi
Bayan lokacinsa a Oxford, Direba ya koyar a Makarantar Sevenoaks a Kent sannan kuma a Makarantar Sakandare ta Matthew Humberstone a Lincolnshire (tsohon Humberside )  bayan 1973, inda ya kasance Daraktan Nazarin Form na shida. Ya rubuta *Patrick Duncan: Afirka ta Kudu da Pan-African*  yayin da yake hutu daga makaranta a 1976 kuma kafin ya ɗauki alƙawarinsa na gaba. 

A cikin 1976, ya kasance Fellow Fellow a Jami'ar York, kuma tsawon shekaru 23, ya kasance shugaba (Principal, Island School, Hong Kong, 1978-83; Headmaster, Berkhamsted School, 1983-9; Master, Wellington College, 1989-2000).

## Sana'ar rubutu
Tun daga watan Nuwamba na 2019, Direba ya kasance marubuci na cikakken lokaci, kodayake ya ci gaba da sa hannu a cikin ilimi. A cikin aikinsa, ya buga litattafai na wakoki 10 (mafi kwanan nan *Har yanzu Gaba: Sabbin Waƙoƙi* ), litattafan shayari guda biyar (na kwanan nan, *Ranar Winter a Westonbirt* ), litattafai biyar, tarihin rayuwa da tarihin tarihi guda biyar, da kuma littafin aya ga yara.

Direba ya kasance,  , Babban malami mai daraja a Makarantar Adabi da Rubutun Ƙirƙira, Jami'ar Gabashin Anglia,  wani matsayi da ya gudanar tun 2007.

Direba ya kasance alkali don Kyautar Caine don Rubutun Afirka, 2007 da 2008. Ya kasance ɗan'uwan Gidauniyar Bogliasco a cikin 2007. Ya kasance ɗan'uwanmu a MacDowell Colony a New Hampshire, Amurka, a cikin faɗuwar 2009, kuma ɗan'uwa a Komawar Marubuta Hawthornden a cikin Maris/Afrilu 2011.

## Rayuwa ta sirri da mutuwa
Jonty Driver ya yi aure, yana da ‘ya’ya uku da jikoki takwas.  Ya rasu a ranar 21 ga Mayu, 2023, yana da shekaru 83.   

## Aiyukan da aka zaɓa

*  with Adrian Leftwich
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* (About the five schools at which Driver worked)
* (A collection of 22 poems)

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