Ajamu X

**Ajamu X** ( mmalite 1963 na Huddersfield ) bụ onye omenkà Britain, onye na-ahụ maka nchekwa, onye na-edebe ihe isi na onye na-akwado ya.  A mara ya nke ọma maka foto nka ya nke na-adọrọ mmasị nwoke na nwoke, na ahụ nwoke ojii, yana ọrụ ya dị ka onye na-edebe akwụkwọ na onye na-akwado idekọ ndụ na nke ndị LGBTQ ojii na United  Alaeze (UK).

## Ndụ mbido
A egwuregwu Ajamu na 1963 na Huddersfield nye nne na nna Jamaica .  Nne na nna ochie ochie England na 1958 na nne na nna ya sochiri na 1962

Ajamu dị ka nwoke nwere ihe nwoke nye nne na nna ya n'oge ọ dị afọ iri na ụma ma ike omume ha dị ka "na-enwe akara na-ama atụ maka oge".  [1] Ọ azụ Black History na foto na Leeds .  Mgbe ọ nọ na Leeds, ya na ndị enyi abụọ kere akwụkwọ BLAC, acronym maka Black Liberation Activist Core.  N'October 1987, mgbe ọ hụchara ka a kpọsara ya na akwụkwọ ndị Caribbean Times, Ajamu gara nke mbụ, na ikike, National Black Gay Men's Conference nke e mere na Black Lesbian na Gay Center na Camden.  Ka ọ na-erule January afọ na-eso ya, ọ kwagara London .  [2] [3] Enyere ya aha Ajamu na 1991;  ọ ere “onye na-alụ ogụ maka ihe o kwere”. 
 

## Ọrụ
Ọrụ Ajamu na-egosipụtakarị akụkọ banyere ndị LGBT ojii bụ ndị ọ na-eche na a na-ekewakarị ya na British Society; Ọzọkwa ọ họrọla ilekwasị anya na ndị na-agba ojii na n'ihu ọha "pụọ" na ndị ezinụlọ ha nabatara ya. Ajamu ekwuola na ya jụrụ nzọrọ na omenala ndị Jamaica bụ ndị mmekọ nwoke na nwanyị karịsịa ma kwenye na mmekọ nwoke na nwanyị dị n'ofe omenala na ezinaụlọ niile. 

Ọ na-ekwu karịa ọrụ ya dị ka "onye mmekọ nwoke na nwanyị";  ọ na-agba ọsọ "mmekọahụ maka ndị nwoke na-achọ ka ha na ụmụ nwoke na-enwe mmekọahụ" 1990s, [1] na agụụ mmekọahụ na ihe ụtọ bụ isiokwu ugboro ugboro na foto ya.  Ihe ngosi mbụ ya bụ Black Bodyscapes, na 1994, lekwasịrị anya na eziokwu nke nwoke nwere ike nwoke .  [2] ozi ndị ọzọ na-adịbeghị anya ngosi Fierce: Portraits of Young Black Queers .  ihe ngosi nke ihe ngosi 24 nke "...ọgbọ ọhụrụ nke ndị ojii na-anya isi na-eto eto, ndị na-ahụ na nkà ndị guzosiri ike" [3] na London's Guildhall Art Gallery na 2014 na a bụ m maka  ị nwere ike ụtọ [4] na Khalil West, na Kọntaktị Ndị na-eme ihe nkiri, Manchester, na 2016, nke na-eji foto na vidiyo.  ha.  Ajamu mmetụtala onwe ya dị ka "onye na-ese ihe nri ebe nchekwa" [5] na, na mgbakwunye na omume nka ya, na-aga n'ihu na-edekọ ozi LGBT ojii.
 
N'afọ 2000 Ajamu na Topher Campbell mebere rukus!  Federation [1] bụ "onye ọrụ nka nke raara onwe ya nye na-eme ememe na igosi ihe kacha mma na ọrụ aka, na-akpali agụụ mmekọahụ nke ndị nchọpụta, nwoke nwere mmemme nwoke, bisexual na trans-sexual artists.  na mba na mba ụwa."  [2] Ajamu bụ onye njikwa Archive "The Black LGBT Archive Project", bụ isi emu iji mkpokọta Archive na "Nwa mgbaàmà nwere nwoke, nwoke nwere nra nwoke, Bisexual na Trans-Gender Heritage, ihe mere eme na a  ndụ na UK".  [2] Na 2008 Ajamu ngosi ihe ngosi ahụ n'ụdị Edge: njem site na Black Lesbian na-eme ihe mere eme nwoke nwere ngwaọrụ nwoke na Museum of Docklands .  [3] Rukus!  Edebere ebe nchekwa omenala nwoke ndị na-egosi nwere nrara nke nwoke bisexual bisexual na London Metropolitan Archives na 2010. 

Ajamu bụ isiokwu ihe nkiri mbụ Topher Campbell *mere The Homecoming: A Short Film about Ajamu* na 1995.  Ihe nkiri akwụkwọ akụkọ *Brixton Recreation with Ajamu,* nke Danny Solle duziri, gosipụtara ahụmịhe ya nke njem njem na inwe mmekọahụ dịka nwoke nwere mmasị nwoke na Brixton. 

Foto nka mara mma dị na mkpokọta mba na mba ụwa Gallery of Modern Art na Glasgow, Autograph ABP, na Neuberger Museum of Art na New York.  Ajamu bụ onye isi oche nke Centred, otu LGBTQ obodo, na Soho nke London

## Ihe ngosi ahọpụtara

* 2019 *Diasporic Self – Black Togetherness dị ka Lingua Franca,* Framer Framed, Amsterdam (14 dec – 17 feb 2019)
* 2016 *Khalil West na Ajamu - Abụ m maka ị nwere ike ịnụ ụtọ*, Ụlọ ihe nkiri kọntaktị, Manchester (4 February - 18 June 2016) 
* 2013 *Fierce - Eserese ndị na-eto eto Black LGBTQ sitere na Ajamu*, Guildhall Art Gallery, London
* *Akụkọ 2012 ga-eme n'ọdịnihu*, foto ọrụ ọkwa okporo ụzọ, Glasgow
* 2011 *Queer Self Portraits Ugbu a*, Fred, London 
* 2010 *Photoshow*, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York
* 2009 *Ndị ọbịa amaara nke ọma*, Ụlọ ihe ngosi nka nke oge a, Glasgow
* 2004 *Akụkọ ezoro ezo*, Walsall New Art Gallery, England
* 1997 *Na-agbanwe Okpueze*, Caribbean Cultural Center, New York. 
* 1994 *Black Bodyscapes*, Igwefoto, London 
* 1992 *Site na Ebe M guzoro*, Brixton Art Gallery, London 

Dị ka Curator:

* 2016 *Curatorial Resident*, Visual AIDS, New York 
* 2008 *N'èzí Edge: njem site na Black British Lesbian na nwoke nwere mmasị nwoke akụkọ ihe mere eme*, Museum of Docklands, London 

## Ntụaka

## Ọgụgụ ọzọ

* Bailey, David A., ed. (1995) *Ajamu: Black Bodyscapes*, Camerawork, London.
* Njami, Simon. (1994) *Anthology of African Photography*, Mbipụta Revue Noir
* X, Ajamu, Campbell, Topher, & Stevens, Mary (2010). Ihunanya na mmanu n'ime ebe nchekwa, ma obu rukus! : ebe nchekwa oji queer maka United Kingdom . *Archivaria, 68* (68)

## Njikọ mpụga

* Official website
* rukus! Federation official website
* ''rukus! Black Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Cultural Archive'' Archived 8 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine at London Metropolitan Archives
* ''rukus! Black Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Cultural Archive'' finding aid Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine AIM25
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