John Sibi-Okumu

**John Sibi-Okumu** bụ onye Kenya na-eme ihe nkiri na onye nta akụkọ, nke a maara nke ọma na mba ụwa maka ọrụ ya na The Constant Gardener .

## Akụkọ ndụ
A mụrụ John Sibi-Okumu n'afọ 1954 na mpaghara ọdịda anyanwụ Kenya n'ebe a na-akpọ Budalangi https://maishamagiceast.dstv.com/show/stori-yangu/videos/the-early-life-of-john-sibi-okumu-on-stori-yangu/video. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na United Kingdom na William Patten School, London, mgbe e mesịrị na Kenya na Muthaiga Primary School na maka agụmakwụkwọ sekọndrị ya, ọ sonyeere Duke of York nke e mechara gbanwee aha ya; Lenana High School, mgbe e mesịrị na Mahadum Toulouse II - Le Mirail, France. N'ihe ka ukwuu n'ime ndụ ọkachamara ya, ọ kụziri French na ụlọ akwụkwọ elementrị, nke etiti na ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị, bụrụ onye isi nke ngalaba asụsụ ọgbara ọhụrụ n'oge dị iche iche n'ogologo ọrụ. Sibi-Okumu malitere ime ihe nkiri n'afọ 1968 mgbe ọ bụ nwa akwụkwọ na Lenana School, na-aga n'ihu ime ihe nkiri dị iche iche.

Dịka onye nta akụkọ, ọ kwadoro ihe omume TV a ma ama, Ọgbakọ e gosipụtara na Kenya Television Network (KTN), nke ọ gbara ndị ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị Kenya ajụjụ ọnụ. Kemgbe ọtụtụ afọ, a na-amata ya, ọkachasị ndị Kenya na-ege ntị na ndị na-ekiri ya, dịka onye na-agụ akụkọ redio na telivishọn na onye na-eweta ya. Dịka ọmụmaatụ, n'agbata afọ 1997 na afọ 2002 na The Summit, na-eduzi ajụjụ ọnụ TV na ndị dịka Daniel arap Moi, Mwai Kibaki, Robert Mugabe, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Richard Leakey na Wangari Maathai. Malite n'afọ 2007, ọ bụ onye isi nyocha maka ọkara awa, mahadum, ihe ngosi *ihe* ọmụma n'ozuzu, *Celtel* Africa Challenge (nke mechara bụrụ Zain Africa Challenge).  Ihe ngosi a, nke gosipụtara na mba ndị na-asụ Bekee n'ofe Afrịka na site na satellite mgbasa ozi na DStv, gosipụtara ndị otu mahadum sitere na mba Afrịka asatọ. Ihe ngosi ahụ mechiri mgbasa ozi ya n'afọ 2010.

Ọ kọọla akụkọ ihe nkiri na-emeri ihe nrite na Bekee na French ma na-arụkwa ọtụtụ ihe nkiri, n'etiti ha dịka Mịnịsta na-ahụ maka Ahụike Dr. Joshua Ngaba na Oscar-winning The Constant Gardener na dịka ezigbo ndụ UN diplomat Jacques Roger Boh-Boh na Shake Hands with the Devil, akụkọ banyere mgbukpọ agbụrụ Rwanda site n'anya *onye* isi ndị France na Canada Roméo Dallaire . Ihe nkiri ya ndị ọzọ gụnyere Born Free (1975), We are the children (1987) na *Metamo* (1997). Kemgbe ọtụtụ afọ, Sibi-Okumu apụtawo n'ihe dị ka ọrụ iri anọ na ogbo, gụnyere Sophocles' King Oedipus; Shakespeare's Romeo, Oberon na Shylock; Anouilh's Creon na *Antigone*, Samuel Beckett's Vladimir na Waiting for Godot na Mtwa / Ngema's Percy na Woza, Albert! Sibi-Okumu n'onwe ya echepụtawo *In Search of the Drum Major* na Like Ripples On a Pond, ma na American Civil Rights Movement, yana *Milestones - Ihe ngosi maka* African Poetry.

O deela egwuregwu abụọ. Nke mbụ, Role Play - A Journey Into The Kenyan Psyche, e bipụtara n'afọ 2005 (MvuleAfrica Publishers;  ) ma *Newsweek International* toro ya dị ka "nle anya na-enweghị mgbaghara na echiche agbụrụ na Kenya nke oge a". Nke abụọ, Minista...Karibu!, bụ nke ndị na-ege ntị na Nairobi hụrụ n'ọnwa Ọktoba afọ 2007. Na Minista...Karibu! Sibi-Okumu satirises (n'ụzọ ụfọdụ amụma maka Kenya) ihe ize ndụ nke ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị ịchọ ọdịmma onwe onye nanị na nkwụsi ike ọha na eze. Kemgbe ahụ, ọ gbakwunyere *Tom Mboya*: Master of Mass Management, maka ndị na-eto eto na-agụ akwụkwọ, na akwụkwọ edemede ya (Sasa Sema / Longhorn Publishers).

N'ọnwa Ọktọba afọ 2009 John Sibi-Okumu [5] duziri egwu *Mo Faya*, nke e gosipụtara n'afọ 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Dịka onye nta akụkọ na-ebipụta akwụkwọ, o deela akwụkwọ akụkọ na magazin ndị Kenya n'okpuru aha njirimara Mwenye Sikio na, ruo afọ atọ ọ nọ na kọmitii nchịkọta akụkọ nke akwụkwọ akụkọ *AWAAZ - Voices of the South Asian Diaspora* ([www.awaazmagazine.com]), nke ọ na-aga n'ihu na-ede kọlụm mgbe niile: “Alternative Angle'. Iji tinye eriri okwu ọzọ na ụta ya, ọ rụrụ ọrụ dịka onye nchịkọta akụkọ, ọtụtụ mgbe nke akwụkwọ nyocha sayensị. N'oge ndụ ya niile, Sibi-Okumu nabatara ohere maka ịgbazinye nkà ya n'ụzọ dị mma maka ọrụ ebere na ọdịmma ọha na eze.

N'afọ 2002, e nyere ya aha nsọpụrụ nke Chevalier (Knight) na Ordre des Palmes Académiques, maka ọrụ maka omenala French na Kenya. E wezụga ihe ndị ọ rụzuru dịka onye nkuzi, o nwere aha dị ukwuu dị a nwoke nke nka. N'izo aka n'ihe ndị ọ rụzuru dị ka onye nkuzi na onye nkuzi, a na-akpọ ya n'ụzọ dị egwu na Swahili nsọpụrụ *Mwalimu* ("onye nkuzi") na obodo Kenya.

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