Kabura Zakama

**Kabura Zakama** (amụrụ ya mgbe ọnwa Mee dị mkpụrụ ụbọchị iri n'otu, n'afọ 1964) bụ onye Naijiria na-ede uri, dọkịta anụmanụ na onye mmepe mba ụwa na onye ọrụ ebere. Nchịkọta uri ya, The Man Lived, meriri na 1999 Association of Nigerian Authors ANA Poetry Prize. Ọ kọwapụtara Birago Diop, Lenrie Peters, Tanure Ojaide na Kwesi Brew dị ka ndị isi na-emetụta uri ya. N'afọ 1998, Zakama guzobere Kairos Productions iji bipụta ndị odee na-agbagote. A nabatara uri ya nke ọma n'ofe Afrịka nakwazi n'èzí.

## Mbido ndụ na agụmakwụkwọ
A mụrụ Kabura Lynn Zakama n'ezinụlọ Garnvwa nke obodo Garkida, Adamawa steeti, North East Nigeria na 11 Mee 1964, ma gụọ akwụkwọ praịmarị na North Garkida Praịmarị School. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ sekọndrị na Federal Government College, Maiduguri na Borno State, Nigeria, ebe ọ natara Federal Government School Scholarship. Ọ gara Mahadum Ahmadu Bello dị na Zaria ebe ọ nwetara nzere Doctor of Veterinary Medicine n'afọ 1989. N'afọ ahụ, ọ nwetakwara asambodo profishiensi na French.

N'afọ 1997, Kabura Zakama gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Postgraduate Diploma na Management na Mahadum Bayero, Kano. E nyere ya Chevening Scholarship n'afọ 2004, wee nwetakwa nzere masta na Governance na Development na Institute of Development Studies, Mahadum Sussex na Brighton, United Kingdom n'afọ 2005.

## Ọrụ
Kabura Zakama nọ na-arụ ọrụ n'onwe ya dị ka dọkịta anụmanụ ruo afọ itoolu tupu ọ malite ọrụ na mmepe mba ụwa. N'afọ 1999, o guzobere Pastoralist Development Initiative, otu NGO na-ewulite ikike na mmepe mmadụ na ndị na-azụ atụrụ na North Central Nigeria, nke lekwasịrị anya na ọchịchị, ahụike, agụmakwụkwọ nakwazi ihe gbasara mmemme ndụ.

Dị ka nwata na-etolite ngwa ngwa ma na-etinye onwe ya n'ime onwe ya (ya bụ na ọ naghị achọ mmekọ ya na ndị mmadụ), Kabura Zakama malitere ide uri mgbe ọ dị obere. Mgbe ọ nọ n'ụlọ akwụkwọ Veterinary School, o dere uri ma tinye ha na bọọdụ ọkwa. O nyere uri, *Farida*, nke a raara nye nwa klas ya nke a gbagburu mgbe a kpọrọ ndị uwe ojii ka ha kwụsị ọgba aghara ụmụ akwụkwọ, na magazin ụmụ akwụkwọ.

Ọ bụ n'afọ 1994 ka Kabura Zakama zutere Prọfesọ Zaynab Alkali onye kpọrọ ya ka ọ bịa kọwaa uri / akụkọ dị mkpirikpi nke mụpụtara Vultures in the Air: Voices from Northern Nigeria. Site n'oge ahụ, Kabura Zakama, onye bụ onye na-ede uri, malitere ibipụta uri ya na akwụkwọ akụkọ, magazin na nchịkọta akwụkwọ akụkọ.

Kabura Zakama na-ahụzi uri ya dị ka ọkpụkpọ oku ma na-akwalite ndị odee na-eto eto ya na ide ihe n'asụsụ nne ya nke ji nwayọọ nwayọọ anwụ. Ọ bụ onye otu Association of Nigerian Authors, Abuja Literary Society na Abuja Writers Forum ebe ọ na-etinye aka na uri na-eme ihe nkiri ma na-etinye akụkọ dị mkpirikpi na ederede na-abụghị akụkọ ifo. Dị ka onye na-ede blọgụ na-arụsikwa ọrụ ike, ọ na-arụ ọrụ ike n'ọtụtụ forums edemede n'ịntanetị.

## Abụ uri
Kabura Zakama malitere ide uri n'oge ọ dị afọ iri na ụma ma nyekwa aka na edemede uri nke mba nakwa nke mba ụwa. N'afọ 1999, ọ meriri Association of Nigerian Authors ANA Poetry Prize maka nchịkọta uri ya, The Man Lived . Ọtụtụ n'ime uri ya na-ekwu maka nsogbu mmekọrịta mmadụ na ibe ya na ọchịchị na Naịjirịa.

## Ọrụ
**Akwụkwọ ndị e bipụtara nanị ha**

* The Man Lived (abụ), Kairos Productions, afọ 2004
* Chant of the Angry (*abụ*), Kairos Productions, afọ 2021

**Anthologies**

* *Nnụnụ* na ikuku: Olu sitere na Northern Nigeria, nke Zaynab Alkali na Al Imfeld dezigharịrị, Spectrum Books, 1995 
* *25* New Nigerian Poets, nke Toyin Adewale dezigharịrị; Ishmael Reed Publishing, 2000 
* *Paspọtụ* gaa na Ụwa Ọhụrụ, nke Sunny Ayewanu dezigharịrị; Apex Books Limited, 2001
* Nkwa Uncle Bola: akwụkwọ edemede nke Abuja Literary Society nke uri na akụkọ, nke Victor Anoliefo chịkọtara; Foucault Publishers, Netherlands, 2003
* Five Hundred Nigeria Poets, Mpịakọta nke Mbụ, nke Jerry Agada dezigharịrị; Aboki Publishers, 2005
* Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa, nke Nii Ayikwei Parkes na Kadija Sesay dezigharịrị; tụgharịrị anya na-ebipụta na ndị edemede Africa Abroad, 2005 

## Edensibịa

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