Kabura Zakama

**Kabura Zakama** (an haife shi a ranar 11 ga Mayu 1964) mawaki ne na Najeriya, likitan dabbobi kuma mai ci gaba da bunkasa kasa da kasa da kuma aikin jin kai. Tarin waƙoƙinsa, The Man Lived ya lashe kyautar 1999 Association of Nigerian ANA Poetry Prize .  Ya gano Birago Diop, Lenrie Peters, Tanure Ojaide da Kwesi Brew a matsayin manyan tasirin waƙoƙinsa. A cikin 1998, Zakama ya kafa Kairos Productions don buga marubutan da ke zuwa. An karɓi waƙoƙinsa da kyau a duk faɗin Afirka da waje.

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
An haifi Kabura Lynn Zakama a cikin Garnvwa Family na Garkida, Jihar Adamawa, Arewa maso Gabashin Najeriya a ranar 11 ga Mayu 1964, kuma ya sami karatun firamare a Makarantar Firamare ta Arewacin Garkida . Ya yi karatun sakandare a Kwalejin Gwamnatin Tarayya, Maiduguri a Jihar Borno, Najeriya, inda ya sami tallafin Makarantar Gwamnatin Tarayyar. Ya halarci Jami'ar Ahmadu Bello da ke Zaria inda ya sami digiri na Doctor of Veterinary Medicine a shekarar 1989. A wannan shekarar, ya kuma sami takardar shaidar ƙwarewa a Faransanci.

A shekara ta 1997, Kabura Zakama ya kammala digirin digirin digiri na biyu a fannin gudanarwa a Jami'ar Bayero, Kano . An ba shi Kyautar Chevening Scholarship a shekara ta 2004 kuma ya kammala digiri na biyu a fannin Gudanarwa da Ci gaba a Cibiyar Nazarin Ci Gaban, Jami'ar Sussex a Brighton, Ingila a shekara ta 2005. 

## Ayyuka
Kabura Zakama ya kasance a cikin aikin likitan dabbobi na shekaru tara kafin ya fara aiki a ci gaban kasa da kasa. A cikin 1999, ya kafa Pastoralist Development Initiative, wani kungiya mai gina iyawa da kuma ci gaban dan adam tare da makiyaya a Arewacin Tsakiyar Najeriya, wanda ya mayar da hankali kan shugabanci, kiwon lafiya, ilimi da shirye-shiryen rayuwa.

A shekara ta 2003, ya shiga ActionAid Najeriya a matsayin mai ba da shawara kan shirin don haɓaka iyawa. Daga baya ya bar kuma ya taimaka wajen kafa shirin Taimako Kirista a Najeriya a shekara ta 2005, ya zama mukaddashin Manajan Kasar a shekara ta 2009. Ya shiga Shirin Gudanar da Jam'iyyar Democrat don Ci Gaban Shirin Majalisar Dinkin Duniya UNDP Najeriya a cikin 2010 a matsayin Masanin Jama'a har zuwa 2015 lokacin da ya fara aikinsa na yanzu a matsayin Mai Gudanar da Yankin Arewa maso Gabashin Najeriya tare da Ofishin Harkokin Waje, Commonwealth da Ci Gaban.

Yayinda yake yaro amma mai son kai, Kabura Zakama ya fara rubuta waka tun yana ƙarami. Yayinda yake a Makarantar Kula da Dabbobi, ya rubuta waka kuma ya sanya su a kan allon sanarwa. Ya ba da gudummawa ga waka, *Farida*, wanda aka keɓe ga wani ɗan ajin da aka kashe ta hanyar harsashi lokacin da aka kira 'yan sanda don murkushe rikici na ɗalibai, ga mujallar ɗalibai.

A cikin 1994 ne Kabura Zakama ya sadu da Farfesa Zaynab Alkali wanda ya gayyace shi zuwa wani bita na waka / gajeren labari wanda ya haifi Vultures in the Air: Voices from Northern Nigeria .  Tun daga wannan lokacin, Kabura Zakama, wanda ya kasance mawaki, ya fara buga waƙoƙinsa a cikin jaridu, mujallu da litattafai.

A cikin 1999, tarin waka da ba a buga ba, The Man Lived, ya lashe kyautar waka ta ANA . An buga tarin a shekara ta 2004, shekarar da Zakama ya kasance mai halarta a shirin Crossing Borders na Majalisar Burtaniya wanda ya haɗu da matasa mawaƙa na Najeriya tare da mawaƙa na Burtaniya don jagoranci. Zakama ya yi aiki tare da mawaki mai suna Welsh, Menna Elfyn .  An sake zabarsa a shekara ta biyu don yin aiki a rubuce-rubuce a cikin harsunan asali tare da mawaki.

Kabura Zakama yanzu yana ganin waƙarsa a matsayin kira kuma yana inganta matasa marubuta da kuma rubutawa a cikin yarensa wanda ke ɓacewa a hankali. Shi memba ne mai aiki a cikin Ƙungiyar Marubutan Najeriya, Abuja Literary Society da Abuja Writers Forum inda yake shiga cikin waƙoƙin wasan kwaikwayo da kuma shiga cikin gajeren labari da rubuce-rubucen da ba na fiction ba. A matsayinsa na mai rubutun ra'ayin yanar gizo, yana aiki a kan dandalin tattaunawa na kan layi da yawa.

## Waƙoƙi
Kabura Zakama ya fara rubuta waka tun yana saurayi kuma ya ba da gudummawa ga litattafan waka na kasa da na duniya. A shekara ta 1999, ya lashe lambar yabo ta Association of Nigerian ANA Poetry Prize don tarin waƙoƙinsa, The Man Lived . Yawancin waƙoƙinsa suna magana ne game da batutuwan zamantakewa da shugabanci a Najeriya.

## Ayyuka
**Littattafai guda ɗaya**

* *Mutumin da ya Rayu* (waƙoƙi), Kairos Productions, 2004
* Chant of the Angry (waƙoƙi), Kairos Productions, 2021

**Tarihin Tarihi**

* Vultures in the Air: Muryoyi daga Arewacin Najeriya, wanda Zaynab Alkali da Al Imfeld suka shirya, Littattafan Spectrum, 1995 
* 25 Sabbin Waƙoƙin Najeriya, wanda Toyin Adewale ya shirya; Ishmael Reed Publishing, 2000 
* *Fasfo zuwa Sabon Duniya,* wanda Sunny Ayewanu ya shirya; Apex Books Limited, 2001
* Alkawarin Uncle Bola: tarin waƙoƙi da waƙoƙa na Abuja Literary Society, wanda Victor Anoliefo ya tattara; Foucault Publishers, Netherlands, 2003
* *Mawakin Najeriya ɗari biyar,* Volume One, wanda Jerry Agada ya shirya; Aboki Publishers, 2005
* Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Waƙoƙi ga Ken Saro-Wiwa, wanda Nii Ayikwei Parkes da Kadija Sesay suka shirya; buga ido da kuma Marubutan Afirka A kasashen waje, 2005 

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