Kojo Laing

B. Kojo Laing ma ọ bụ Bernard Kojo Laing (1 Julaị 1946 – 20 Eprel 2017) [1] bụ onye Ghana na-ede akwụkwọ na onye na-ede uri, onye e ji mara ihe odide ya site na ngwakọ ya, ebe ọ na-eji Ghanaian Pidgin English na asụsụ asụsụ n'akụkụ Bekee ọkọlọtọ.[2] ] Akwụkwọ akụkọ abụọ mbụ ya karịsịa - Search Sweet Country (1986) na Nwanyị nke ụgbọ elu (1988) - ka a toro maka mmalite asụsụ ha, akwụkwọ abụọ ahụ gụnyere nkọwa nkọwa nke gosipụtara neologisms onye edemede yana okwu Ghana.[3].

## Mbido ndụ na ọrụ
A mụrụ Laing na Kumasi, isi obodo nke mpaghara Ashanti nke Ghana,  nwa mbụ na nke anọ n'ime ụmụ isii nke George Ekyem Ferguson Laing (onye ụkọchukwu Anglican nke ghọrọ onye isi Africa mbụ nke Anglican Theological College na Ashanti) na Darling Egan.  E mere ya baptizim dị ka Bernard Ebenezer, o mechara kwụsị iji aha Ndị Kraịst Bekee ya, na-akwado njirimara Africa ya. Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Accra, Laing na 1957 gara n'ihu na agụmakwụkwọ praịmarị na sekọndrị ya na Scotland, na-aga Bonhill Ụlọ akwụkwọ praịmarị  na Vale of Leven Academy na Alexandria, Dunbartonshire .

Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Mahadum Glasgow na 1968 na nzere masta, tupu ya na nwunye ya onye Scotland Josephine na ụmụ ha atọ laghachi Ghana. Ọ sonyeere ọrụ gọọmentị, ọ nọgidere n'ebe ahụ ruo 1979. O mechara rụọ ọrụ afọ ise dị ka odeakwụkwọ nchịkwa nke Institute of African Studies na Mahadum Ghana, Legon, na 1984 ọ ghọrọ onye isi nke Saint Anthony's School na Accra, nke nne ya guzobere.

## Ide ihe
Laing pụtara dị ka onye na-ede uri n'afọ ndị 1970, na-arụ ọrụ "na-adabere na usoro nke surrealism mgbe ụfọdụ",  mana ọ nwetara nlebara anya dị mkpa naanị na mpụta akwụkwọ akụkọ mbụ ya, Chọọ mba dị ụtọ, nke e bipụtara na 1986 ka a mara ya nke ọma,   ma merie ihe nrite gụnyere Valco Award na Ghana Book Award. 

Ọ bụ McSweeney wepụtara Search Sweet Country ọzọ na 2012, ya na Binyavanga Wainaina. N ya na The Slate Book Review, "-link" data-linkid="94" href="./Uzodinma_Iweala" id="mwRw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Uzodinma Iweala">Uzodinma Iweala dere, sị: "Ịgụ Search Sweet Country dị ka ịgụ nrọ, n'ezie mgbe ụfọdụ ọ na-adị ka ọmarịcha ala nke ndị edemede dị ka onye Naijiria Ben Okri ma ọ bụ onye Mozambican Mia Couto. Peeji ọ bụla na-enye nnukwu ihe oyiyi doro anya, ụwa nke ala na-abịa na ndụ mgbe ihe ndị na-adịghị ndụ na-enweta njirimara.... ma ọ bụrụ onye na-achọkarị ka ọ dị mma, na-achọsi ike, na-agụ akwụkwọ akụkọ ọhụrụ.

E bipụtara akwụkwọ akụkọ nke abụọ nke Laing, Woman of the Aeroplanes, n'afọ 1988, ma jiri ya tụnyere ọrụ Ayi Kwei Armah. Laing bipụtara akwụkwọ akụkọ abụọ ọzọ: Major Gentl na Achimota Wars (1992), nke nwetakwara Valco Award na 1993, na Big Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters (2006).

E bipụtara nchịkọta uri ya, Godhorse na 1989. Laing dekwara akụkọ dị mkpirikpi, otu n'ime ha - "Ofufe maka Post nke Jizọs Kraịst" - gụnyere na The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Stories (1992; nke Chinua Achebe na C. L. Innes dezigharịrị),  ma kọwaa ya dị ka "ihe ịtụnanya, ihe ijuanya nke akụkọ sayensị". 

## Afọ ndị sochirinụ
Laing biri na Accra ma, site na 2005, tinye onwe ya oge niile n'ide akwụkwọ.

Ọ nwụrụ na Ghana mgbe ọ dị afọ 70 na 20 Eprel 2017, nwunye mbụ ya na ụmụ itoolu na nwunye ya nke abụọ na ụmụ atọ. Tributes na The Johannesburg Review of Books kwuru na Laing "na-eleda anya n'ụzọ dị mwute n'oge ndụ ya" ma kpọọ ya "otu n'ime ndị dike a na-amaghị ama nke akụkọ ifo Africa".

## Onyinye

* 1976: Ihe nrite National Poetry Valco
* 1985: National Novel Prize, Ghana Association of Writers
* 1993: Ihe nrite Valco

## Akwụkwọ

* Search Sweet Country (novel), Heinemann, 1986; 2011,  . With an Introduction by Binyavanga Wainaina, McSweeney's Publishing, 2012,  .
* Woman of the Aeroplanes (novel), Heinemann, 1988; reissued 2011, with an Introduction by Ellah Allfrey,  ISBN 978-0435045722
* Godhorse (poetry), Heinemann African Writers Series, 1989.  ISBN 978-0435905521
* Major Gentl and Achimota Wars (novel), Heinemann African Writers Series, 1992.  ISBN 978-0435909789
* Big Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters (novel), Woeli Publishing Services, 2006.  ISBN 978-9988626501

## Ịgụ ihe ọzọ

* Brenda Cooper, Magical Reading in West African Fiction: Seeing with a Third Eye, London: Routledge, 1998.
* Pietro Deandrea, " 'New worlds, new wholes': Kojo Laing's Narrative Quest for a Social Renewal", African Literature Today no. 20, 1996, peeji nke 158-178.
* Pietro Deandrea, " 'Akụkọ ihe mere eme anaghị aga ebe a, ọ na-aga n'akụkụ ọ bụla': Carnival na Magic na Novels of Kojo Laing na Mia Couto", na E. Linguanti, F.M. Casotti na C. Concilio (ed), Coterminous Worlds: Magical Realism na Contemporary Post-colonial Literature in English, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 1999, pp. 209-225, isbn 9042004487.
* Pietro Deandrea, Fertile Crossings: Metamorphoses of Genre in Anglophone West African Literature, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2002, peeji nke 71-79 na 92-108, isbn 9789042014787.
* Arlene A. Elder, Myth, Humor and History in the Fiction of Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing and Yvonne Vera, Boydell & Brewer, 2009.
* Hankinson, Joseph (2023)  Kojo Laing, Robert Browning na Affiliative Literature. . ISBN 978-3-031-18775-9. S2CID 254625651.
* Moussa Issifou, "Beyond the Language Debate in Postcolonial Literature: Linguistic Hybridity in Kojo B. Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes", The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol. 6, nke 5, Ọktoba 2013, peeji nke 46-62.&nbsp;
* M. E. Kropp Dakubu, "Ihe ngosi na Mgbanwe na Fiction nke Kojo Laing: 'Asụsụ nke Ezi Ịdị' Revisited", Connotations, Vol. 8.3 (1998/99): 357–61.
* Francis Ngaboh-Smart, Beyond Empire and Nation. *Karịa Alaeze Ukwu na Mba. Arụmụka Postnational na akụkọ ifo nke Nuruddin Farah na B. Kojo Laing*. Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2004, XXI, 168 peeji.
* Francis Ngaboh-Smart, "Sayensị na nnọchiteanya nke njirimara Afrịka na Major Gentl na Achimota Wars", Connotations 7.1 (1997/98): 57-79.
* Mary Rohrberger, "Woman of the Aeroplanes", na Frank N. Magill (ed.), Magill's Literary Annual 1991, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1991, 2:914-18.

## Ihe odide

## Njikọ mpụga

* *Search Sweet Country* (novel), Heinemann, 1986; 2011, . With an Introduction by Binyavanga Wainaina, McSweeney's Publishing, 2012, .
* *Woman of the Aeroplanes* (novel), Heinemann, 1988; reissued 2011, with an Introduction by Ellah Allfrey, 
* *Godhorse* (poetry), Heinemann African Writers Series, 1989. ISBN&nbsp;
* *Major Gentl and Achimota Wars* (novel), Heinemann African Writers Series, 1992. ISBN&nbsp;
* *Big Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters* (novel), Woeli Publishing Services, 2006. ISBN&nbsp;