Vera Bell

**Vera Bell** ko **Vera Alberta or **Albertha**ko **Albertha** **Bell*' (an haife ta a shekara ta alif dari tara da shida 1906; rana) mawaƙiyar Jamaica ce, marubuciyar gajeren labari kuma marubuciyar wasan kwaikwayo. Waƙarta ta shekarar 1948 "Ancestor on the Auction Block" an yi amfani da ita sau da yawa ko da yake nazarin shekara ta 2005 na *The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse* ya ce "wasu daga cikin waƙoƙin da suka gabata suna rayuwa ne kawai a matsayin kayan tarihi masu ban sha'awa, irin su Vera Bell's. "Kakannin Kakannin Kaya na Gwanjo"". [[Laurence A. Breiner]] ya bayyana waƙar a cikin *An Gabatarwar Waƙar Indiya ta Yamma* (1998) a matsayin "waƙar da mawaƙin da ke da matsala game da batun abu na kakannin mawaƙi", kuma Breiner ya buga George Lamming a matsayin sanya waƙar " kai tsaye a wani ɗan gajeren lokaci a cikin aiwatar da kulla hulɗa tare da wani abin da aka ƙi a baya ko wanda aka yi. 

== Rayuwa ==
An haifi Bell a Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, kuma ya yi karatu a Makarantar 'Yan Mata ta Wolmer. Ta yi aiki a ma'aikatar walwala bayan barin ta makaranta, sannan ta yi karatu a Jami'ar Columbia da Jami'ar London.

Bell's shekara ta 1943 *Solididay da Mugun Tsuntsu*, wanda [[Little Theatre Movement of Jamaica]] ya shirya, an bayyana shi a matsayin "na farko pantomime na Jamaican". 

Bell yana da gajerun labarai da yawa da aka buga a cikin *ra'ayin jama'a* na mako-mako na siyasa da ƙaramin mujallar Jamaican *FOCUS*, edita Edna Manley. 'The Bamboo Pipe' da 'Joshua,' kuma an haɗa su a cikin littattafai guda biyu da aka gyara da wuri na gajerun almara: *14 Short Stories na Jamaica* (1950) da *Caribbean Anthology of Short Stories* (1953) bi da bi - dukansu ɓangare na wallafe-wallafen littafin tsakiyar karni na The Gleaner jerin, The Pioneer Press, wanda Una Marson ya gabatar da farko kuma ya gyara.

A cikin shekara ta 1971 ta buga *Oog* (Vantage Press, New York), wanda aka kwatanta da "Labarin ayar da ba a saba gani ba wanda ke tsara haɓakar al'ada".. Wani marubuci a cikin *Journal of West Indian Literature* a shekara ta 1989 ya ce: "Alal misali, Vera Bell, an san ta da waƙa guda ɗaya da aka tattauna sosai, "Ancestor on the Auction Block" (babu wanda ya san Ogog na tsawon littafinta). 

Bell's "Mutuwar abokin tarayya" an haɗa shi a cikin 1989 *West Indian Poetry: Anthology for Schools* edited by Kenneth Ramchand da Cecil Gray.

A cikin shekarar 1981-1982 an watsa shirye-shirye na mintuna talatin game da Bell a cikin jerin *mutum na farko na mata* a gidan rediyon WOI-FM, Ames, Iowa, Amurka kuma Cibiyar Albarkatun Watsa Labarai ta Jami'ar Jihar Iowa ta yi rikodin a kan kaset na kaset. 

Kyautar Vera Bell don Waƙa, wani ɓangare na Kyautar Marubutan Baƙaƙen Matasa, Maud Sulter ya ci nasara a cikin shekara ta 1985 saboda aikinta *na Baƙar fata.''

Firayim Ministan Jamaica Portia Simpson Miller ya ƙare sakonta na ɗaya ga Agusta shekara ta  2014 na Ranar 'Yanci tare da kalmomin "Mawaki Vera Bell kalmomi sun zo gaskiya:" da kuma bayanan daga "Ancestor on the Auction Block" yana ƙarewa tare da layinsa na ƙarshe "Mine .", ya kara da cewa "Gina za mu iya… gina dole… mu gina za mu! Wannan ita ce Jamaica, Jamaica mu, Ƙasar da muke ƙauna Nagode." 

An ce Bell yana zaune a Ingila a cikin shekara ta 1999. 

'Yar Bell Patsy ta auri Gerry German (1928–2012), shugaban makarantar Manchester a Mandeville, Jamaica, kuma ɗan gwagwarmayar siyasa.

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