Kayode Soyinka

**Kayode Soyinka** (an haife shi Olukayode Adedeji Soyinka; A ranar sha biyar 15 ga watan Disamba shekarar alif dari tara da hamsin da bakwai miladiyya 1957) dan jaridar Najeriya ne, mawallafi, kuma marubuci. 

Shi ne wanda ya kafa, mawallafi da kuma babban editan *Mujallar Africa Today*, daya daga cikin mujallun labaran duniya na Afirka. 

## Rayuwa ta sirri da ilimi
An haifi Kayode a Ibadan, Najeriya, ga Pa John Akinleye Soyinka da Jochebed Olufunmilayo Soyinka (née Akinyele) na Owu, Abeokuta, Jihar Ogun . Shi ne ɗan yaro na biyu a cikin yara shida - maza biyar da mace. Ya auri Titilope Oluwadamilola (née Odugbesan) a ranar 15 ga Oktoba 1983. Suna da 'ya'ya biyu, 'yar Oluwatumininu Adebimpe, an haife ta 15 ga Janairu 1984 da dan Oluwagbeminiyi Adekunle, an haife ta 25 ga Afrilu 1986.

Kayode ya sami karatun firamare a Ibadan a duka Christ the King (CKC) a Odo-Ona (1964-1966) da Ibadan City Council (ICC) Practicing School a Apata (1967 – 69). A 1970, ya wuce makarantar Baptist Boys' High School (BBHS), a Owu, Abeokuta don karatun sakandare.  A BBHS ya kasance memba na al'ummar adabi da muhawara; ya wakilci kuma ya lashe lambar yabo ga makarantar a gasar adabi da muhawara tsakanin makarantu. Ya yi wa makarantar boko. Kayode Soyinka, a ranar 23 ga Janairu, 2023, ya zama mawaki a cikin BBHS Centennial Hall of Fame. Ya sauke karatu da BA a Alakar Duniya daga Jami'ar Kasa da Kasa ta Amurka, San Diego, California (Bushey Campus, Ingila) a 1987 da MA a Jarida ta Duniya daga City, Jami'ar London, United Kingdom a 1989.  Bayan kammala karatunsa daga City, Jami'ar London, Commonwealth ta dauki nauyin Kayode zuwa Jami'ar Cambridge, Ingila, a matsayin malami mai ziyara a Kwalejin Wolfson a 1990.  An kuma mai da shi Amintaccen Amintaccen Karni na 21st a cikin Afrilu 1991 bayan wani shiri kan batun yancin dan adam a cikin dangantakar kasa da kasa, wanda ya gudana a Kwalejin Worcester, Jami'ar Oxford, karkashin kulawar takwarorinsu biyu Farfesa Kevin Boyle, darektan kare hakkin dan adam. Cibiyar, Jami'ar Essex, Birtaniya, da Ambasada Olara Otunnu, shugaban Cibiyar Nazarin Zaman Lafiya ta Duniya, New York.

## Sana'a da nasara
Lokacin da Kayode ya gama a BBHS, ya dauki aikin malami a PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc a Ilupeju, Legas . A cikin 1976, yana da shekaru 18, Kayode ya sanya hannu a matsayin dan jarida mai suna Sketch Newspapers a Ibadan .  Ya yi aiki da Jaridun Sketch a Ibadan da Benin City . Hukumar Sketch ta ba shi tallafin karatu a Kwalejin Aikin Jarida, Fleet Street, London . Soyinka ya yi karatu a nan tsakanin 1978-79, kuma an nada shi a matsayin wakilin jaridar *Sketch* na Landan. 

Bayan ya sauka a Ingila, Kayode ya kafa kansa a matsayin wakilin Burtaniya na jaridun Najeriya kamar sabuwar jaridar Concord da aka kafa.  Daga nan ne ya zama Babban Editan *Africa Now* da kuma Shugaban Mujallar *Newswatch* na Ofishin London. 

Aiki da ya yi da kungiyar jaridu ta Concord a matsayin majagaba a London a 1980 ya kulla alaka da daya daga cikin mashawartan sa, Cif MKO Abiola . Kayode ya yi aiki kafada-da-kafada a matsayin mataimaki na musamman, amintaccen kuma amintaccen laftanar hamshakin attajirin nan kuma dan kasuwa na kasa da kasa sama da shekaru hudu, inda ya kafa tare da tafiyar da ofishin kungiyar jaridu ta Landan. 

A watan Mayu, 1995 Kayode ya bar Newswatch kuma ya kafa nasa mujallar labarai, *Africa Today*, daya daga cikin mujallu na duniya na Afirka.

Shi mai kishin Commonwealth ne. Har ila yau, yana daya daga cikin mambobi mafi dadewa na The Round Table Moot - Kwamitin Edita na Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs. An kafa shi a cikin 1910, The Round Tebur ita ce mujallar al'amuran duniya mafi tsufa a Biritaniya. A cikin 2014, an zabe shi a matsayin memba na Kwamitin Amintattu na Zagayen Tebur na shekaru uku har zuwa 2017; kuma ya sake zabar wani wa'adin shekaru uku a 2023. Har ila yau, ya kasance mataimaki kuma shugaban kwamitin gudanarwa na kungiyar 'yan jarida ta Commonwealth (CJA) na London, kuma tare da marigayi Derek Ingram, ya wakilci CJA a cikin hukumar kare hakkin bil'adama ta Commonwealth (CHRI) lokacin da aka kafa ta.

## Abubuwan ban mamaki

### Gwagwarmayar 12 Yuni 1993
A lokacin da aka soke zaben shugaban kasa na ranar 12 ga watan Yunin 1993 na Cif MKO Abiola, Kayode ya shirya fitowar Cif Abiola a cikin shirin gidan talabijin na BBC *Newsnight* kai tsaye a jajibirin soke zaben domin nuna bacin ransa da Allah wadai da soke zaben ga kasashen duniya.  Wannan ita ce babbar hira ta farko da Cif Abiola ya yi a wani fitaccen gidan talabijin na duniya. Daga baya Kayode ya bibiyi wannan da labarin da ya kara yin Allah wadai da soke sokewar a jaridar London, *Sunday Independent* na 11 ga Yuli 1993. A cikin labarin, wanda Bernard Levin, mai sharhi kan harkokin siyasa kuma mawallafin jaridar London *Sunday Times* ya bayyana a cikin shafinsa a cikin jaridar 18 ga Yuli 1993, a matsayin "labaran da ya fi kishi" kan rikicin siyasar Najeriya da ya karanta, Kayode ya yi tir da zaben. wanda tsohon shugaban mulkin soja Ibrahim Babangida ya yi masa a matsayin "zamba da babbar yaudara".

A daidai lokacin da gwamnatin marigayi Janar Sani Abacha ke tsare da Cif Abiola, Kayode ya fara taro a shekarar 1995 tsakanin limamin kasar Afirka ta Kudu, Archbishop Desmond Tutu bisa bukatar Dr (Mrs) Doyin Abiola, daya daga cikin matan Cif Abiola. An gudanar da wannan taro ne a kotun Bishop da ke Cape Town, bayan haka, limamin cocin ya ziyarci Janar Abacha a matsayin jakadan shugaba Nelson Mandela .

### Wanda ya tsira daga bom
Yayin da yake rubuta wa Concord daga Birtaniya, Kayode ya sadu kuma ya fara dangantaka da Dele Giwa, wanda a lokacin shi ne Editan *Sunday Concord* . Wannan dangantakar ta ci gaba kuma ta yi karfi a lokacin da Giwa da wasu abokan aikinsa, Ray Ekpu, Yakubu Mohammed, da Dan Agbese, suka kafa mujallar labarai ta Najeriya *Newswatch*, suka nada Kayode, wanda a lokacin yana aiki a karkashin dan jaridar Najeriya kuma mawallafin Peter Enahoro a matsayin Janar Editan. *Afirka Yanzu*, Shugaban Ofishin London.

Labarin mutuwar Dele Giwa da bam a safiyar ranar 19 ga watan Oktoban 1986 da kuma yadda Kayode ya tsira daga fashewar da kuma shaidar mutuwar, ‘yan Najeriya da masu fafutukar ‘yancin ‘yan jarida sun sani.     

## Ganawa da shugabannin duniya

Baya ga kasancewarsa ɗan jarida kuma mawallafi na duniya, Kayode ya haɗu da shugabanni a ciki da wajen Najeriya. Sau biyu ya gana da Sarauniyar Ingila Sarauniya Elizabeth II da Duke na Edinburgh, a Fadar Buckingham da a Windsor.

Ya gana kuma ya yi hira da masu fada aji irin su marigayi shugaban kasar Afirka ta Kudu Nelson Mandela ;   Archbishop Desmond Tutu wanda ya lashe kyautar zaman lafiya ta Nobel; dan gwagwarmayar 'yanci na Afirka ta Kudu Chris Hani da aka kashe; Marigayi tsohon Firayim Ministan Burtaniya James Callaghan ; tsohon sakataren harkokin wajen Birtaniya kuma mataimakin firaministan kasar Sir Geoffrey Howe (daga baya Lord Howe); tsohon sakataren harkokin wajen Birtaniya Dr David Owen (daga baya Lord Owen); tsohon shugaban Najeriya Olusegun Obasanjo ; tsohon Firaministan Kenya Raila Odinga ; tsohon Jakadan Amurka na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya Andrew Young ; Sir Shridath Ramphal da Cif Emeka Anyaoku, dukkansu tsoffin Sakatare-Janar na Commonwealth, da sauran su. 

A farkon watan Fabrairun 2002 lokacin da tsohon Firayim Ministan Burtaniya Tony Blair ya fara rangadinsa na farko a Yammacin Afirka, Kayode ya fito a cikin tawagar jami'an. Ziyarar ta shafi kasashe hudu ne - Najeriya, Ghana, Saliyo da Senegal . A cikin 2015, Kayode ya sami lambar yabo ta Firayim Minista Gaston Browne na Antigua da Barbuda ya gayyace shi don kasancewa cikin tawagar karamin tsibirin Caribbean zuwa taron shugabannin gwamnatocin Commonwealth (CHOGM) a Malta.

## Shiga cikin siyasa

Kayode ya yi yunkurin a zabe shi a matsayin gwamnan jihar Ogun a Najeriya sau uku sau uku . Na farko shine a cikin 2003 akan dandamali na Alliance for Democracy (AD).  Ya rasa tikitin ne ga gwamna mai ci Cif Olusegun Osoba wanda ya taba zama manajansa a jaridun Sketch da ke Ibadan . Yunkurin na biyu shine a cikin 2007 lokacin da ya sake rasa tikitin a ƙarƙashin dandamali na Action Congress (AC). Yunkurin na uku da bai yi nasara ba shi ne a shekarar 2011; kuma, an hana shi tikitin takara a karkashin jam'iyyar Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) .  Kayode Soyinka ya kasance jigo a jam'iyyar All Progressives Congress (APC) a jihar Ogun . Tun daga nan ya yi ritaya daga siyasa ya maida hankali kan aikin jarida.

## Sanarwa
Kayode Soyinka shine marubucin *Bagage na Diflomasiya: Mossad da Najeriya - Labarin Dikko*, wanda aka buga a 1994.   Aikin dai ya shafi yunkurin da gwamnatin mulkin sojan Najeriya ta yi a shekarar 1984 na yin garkuwa da tsohon ministan sufurin jiragen sama, Alhaji Umaru Dikko daga kasar Ingila a shekarar 1984. Shi ne marubucin "An haife shi cikin Jarida: Memoir of a Newspaper Report". An buga shi a shekarar 2020, an rubuta littafin ne don tunawa da shekaru 45 a aikin jarida da kuma shekaru 25 da kafa mujallarsa ta Africa Today. A cikin "An haife shi cikin aikin jarida", Kayode Soyinka ya bayyana abubuwan da ya faru na zama dan jarida. A shekarar 2023, ya kuma rubuta INSPIRING LEADERSHIP, littafin tarihin Architect Darius Dickson Ishaku, wanda ya yi wa'adi biyu gwamnan jihar Taraba, Najeriya.

## Kasancewar Kwararru

* Abokin Aminta na Karni na 21st (Wurin Hakkin dan Adam a Harkokin Kasashen Duniya, Kwalejin Worcester, Jami'ar Oxford 1991)
* Mai Girma Harry Biritaniya Fellow na Kungiyar Jarida ta Commonwealth (CPU), London
* Memba, Commonwealth tunani-tank, The Round Table (majalisar edita na Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs) 
* Tsohon memba, Kwamitin Amintattu na kungiyar 'yan jarida ta Commonwealth (CJA)
* Tsohon memba, Hukumar Hakkin Dan Adam ta Commonwealth (CHRI)
* Tsohon shugaban na tsawon shekaru uku na kwamitin gudanarwa na London na kungiyar 'yan jarida ta Commonwealth
* Memba, Kwamitin Amintattu na Gidauniyar Tsofaffin BBHS
* Mai shigar da kara a cikin BBHS Centennial Hall of Fame.

## Manazarta

## Hanyoyin hadi na waje

* http://www.moot.org.uk/about/boards.asp 
* Kayode Soyinka
* Kayode Soyinka | The Guardian