Bassey Ikpi
Bassey Ikpi, (An haife ta 3 ga watan Augustan Shekarar 1976) `yar asalin ƙasar Najeriya ce mazauniyar Amurka mai magana da ke magana da rubutu, marubuciya, kuma mai ba da shawara game da lafiyar kwakwalwa.  Ta bayyana ne a HBO's Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry sau biyar kuma waƙinta ta buɗe nuna wa masu zane-zane lambar yabo na Grammy Award. Shine kuma jaridar New York Times wacce ke ba da labari mai taken "Na faɗi Gaskiya Amma Ina kwance."

Farkon rayuwa da aiki 
Ikpi an haife ta ne a Ikom, jihar Cross River, Nigeria, a ranar 3 ga Agusta, 1976, ga dangin Najeriya waɗanda suka fito daga Ugep .  Lokacin da take ɗan shekara huɗu, ta koma tare da iyayenta zuwa garin Waterway, Oklahoma, Amurka inda ta zauna har ta kai shekara 13. Daga nan sai ta koma Greenbelt, Maryland, wata unguwar Washington DC.

Ta halarci Jami’ar Maryland, dake Baltimore County don yin karatun Ingilishi . Lokacin da take makarantar koleji, ta fara yin wakoki a wajan Baltimore da Washington DC a kusa da kewaye.  Ta bar karatun a shekarar bararta ta koma New York City . 

Lokacin da take kusan shekara 21, Ikpi ta koma New York City don neman ƙarin dama. A can ne ta gano "Louder Arts Movement", Nuyorican Poets Café, kuma daga baya Po Poryry Jam .  Hakanan tana can inda ta koya yadda ake ɗaukar rubutun ta da muhimmanci.  Ta zama fitacciyar mawakiyar magana a cikin birni kuma an nuna ta a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na Def Poetry Jam TV na tsawon shekaru 5, tare da kamfanin don shekara ɗaya ta fara a bikin Yammacin Edinburgh, sannan kuma don wata shekara ta yin yawon shakatawa ta ƙasa tare da asali Broadway Cast. Ta kasance tare da Def Poetry Jam ne daga 2001 zuwa 2004. It was also there where she learnt how to take her writing seriously.

Binciken Bipolar 

A watan Janairu na 2004, a Chicago, yayin daya daga cikin ranakun da ta zagaya kasar don Def Poetry Jam, ta sami rauni daga bacin rai, damuwa da matsananciyar damuwa.   Bayan 'yan kwanaki bayan haka, a cikin New York City, ta kamu da cutar ta rashin lafiyar Bipolar II, A few days later, in New York City, she was diagnosed with Bipolar II Disorder, something she claimed had always been there since she was a kid.  wani abin da ta ce ya kasance koyaushe yana can tun tana ɗan yaro. a rubuta game da ita a bainar jama'a a cikin wani ra'ayi na Huffington Post a watan Janairu 2011. Ta kuma yi magana game da shi a bainar jama'a ta hanyar jama'a da yawa, a matsayin wata hanya don taimaka wa wasu su shawo kan ɓarna da fahimtar gwagwarmaya. Ta kuma rubuta rubuce rubuce da dama na  kafofin watsa labarai da dama kan batun lafiyar kwakwalwa da tafsirin al'adun gargajiya wadanda suka hada da Ebony, The Huffington Post, Essence.com, XOJane.com da TheRoot.com.

Komawa Najeriya     

A 2014, watanni bayan daruruwan makaranta yara da aka sace daga Chibok a Najeriya, Ikpi shirya 'Shin, The Rubuta Thing', wani taron nuna goyon baya ta hanyar da magana maganar ga Kawo Baya Our Girls yaƙin neman zaɓe. Ta kuma rera waka tare da fitaccen mawakin nan na Najeriya 2Face Idibia don nuna goyon baya ga wannan yunkuri da ake kira 'Break The Silence'.

Aikin Siwe da "Ranar rashin kunya" 
Ikpi ta kafa "The Siwe Project", wanda akewa lakabi da Siwe Monsanto, 'yar shekara goma sha biyar na amininsa wanda ya kashe kansa a shekara ta 2011 bayan tsananin damuwa   a matsayin wata hanyar karfafa mutane masu cutar kwakwalwa "" wanda aka yi wahayi zuwa neman taimako da gudanar da cututtukan su kuma kada su ji tsoro ko kunyar yin magana game da shi. "  Anyi rajistar Siwe a matsayin "riba mai zaman kanta ta duniya da aka sadaukar don inganta wayar da kan jama'ar game da al'umar bakaken fata ta duniya."   

An ƙaddamar da aikin a watan Disamba 2011.  

A ranar 2 ga Yuli, 2013, an gabatar da "Ranar kunya ta farko" a kafofin watsa labarun, inda ake ƙarfafa mutanen da ke fama da matsananciyar wahala ko rashin lafiyar kwakwalwa su sanya labarun su ba tare da kunya ga duniya ba. "Wata dama ce ga mutane a duniya suyi zanga-zangar kula da lafiyar kwakwalwa ... [tare da] tattaunawa ta gaskiya game da kyamar cutar tabin hankali, kamuwa da cutar, da kuma zabin magani. Dalilin ranar rashin kunya shine don ƙarfafa mutane da yawa don neman magani ba tare da kunya ba.

Littattafan Farko: Ni Gaskiya nake fada Amma Ina kwance 
A ranar 4 ga Mayu, 2017, an ba da sanarwar cewa, littafinta na farko, wanda aka yi wa lakabi da Yin Abokai Tare da Gattawa za ta buga ta Harper Perennial a cikin shekarar 2018.  An bayyana littafin a matsayin "wani aiki mai zurfi na sirri wanda ke ba da tarihin rayuwar marubucin ɗan Ba-Amerikan wanda ke rayuwa tare da rashin damuwa da damuwa na Bipolar II, da kuma wata mace mai launi da kuma magance ƙiyayya da ke tattare da shi."  

Littafin, a ƙarshe aka sake sunan shi Na Ba da Gaskiya ne Amma Ina Amince an buga shi a watan Agusta na 2019, kuma cikin sauri ya zama mai ba da izini a New York Times. An bayyana shi a matsayin "tarin rubutun labari mai ban mamaki"  Kola Tubosun ya kira shi "wani taswirar taswira ga masu sha'awar koyo game da yadda cutar kwakwalwa ke shafar mutane."

Ayyukan da aka zaɓa 

 "Wani lokacin shiru shine mafi yawan irin ihu" - Magana mai magana - Def Jam Season 2, Episode 3 (2003) 
 "Homeward" - Magana da aka yi magana - Def Jam Season 3, Episode 3 (2004) 
 "Diallo" - Magana da aka yi magana - Def Jam Season 4, Episode 3 (2005) 
 "Ina so in sumbace ku" - Magana da aka yi magana - Def Jam Season 5, Episode 2 (2006) 
 "Afuwa ga Mahaifina" - Magana da aka yi magana - Def Jam Season 6, Episode 5 (2007) 
 "Shingewar Ganuwa" - Magana da aka yi magana akan "Tasirin Yarinya" (2016)

Manazarta

Hadinwaje 
 "Bassey Ikpi's Website"
 "The Siwe Project Website"

Marubutan Najeriya