Stella Thomas
Stella Jane Thomas (daga baya Stella Marke) (an haife ta a shekarar ta 1906 - ta mutu a shekara ta 1974) ƴar ƙabilar Yoruba Nijeriya lauya a ƙasar Saliyo.   Ta sami digiri na lauya daga jami'ar Oxford kuma a shekarar 1943 ta zama mace ta farko da ta fara yanke hukunci a Najeriya .

Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haifi Stella Thomas a cikin shekarar 1906, a cikin Lagos, Nijeriya, ƴar Peter John Claudius Thomas, wani ɗan kasuwar Saliyo da ke zaune a Lagos. Mahaifinta shi ne ɗan Afirka na farko da ya shugabanci ƙungiyar ’Yan Kasuwa ta Legas .  Ta halarci Makarantar tunawa da Annie Walsh a Freetown, Saliyo, "makarantar sakandare mafi tsufa ga 'yan mata a Afirka ta Yamma."  Ɗan uwanta Peter Thomas ya zama matuƙin jirgin sama na farko na Afirka ta Yamma da aka ba da izini a cikin Sojan Sama a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II .  Wani ɗan’uwan ta Stephen Peter Thomas, shi ne Babban Alƙalin Kotun farko na yankin Mid-West.

Yayin da ta karanci aikin lauya a Oxford kuma ta kasance memba na Middle Temple a Landan, tana aiki tare da ƙungiyar Ɗaliban Afirka ta Yamma, kuma mamba ce ta kafa kungiyar Hadin Kan Masu Launuka, wanda Harold Moody ya shirya .  Ta rayu ne a Bloomsbury, kuma ta yi fice a cikin wasan kwaikwayon da mawaki dan Jamaica Una Marson ya fara wasan farko, A Wace Irin Farashi, wacce gasar ta sanya a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Scala na London .

Ayyuka 
Thomas ita ce mace ta farko daga Afirka da aka kira zuwa mashaya a Burtaniya, a cikin shekarar 1933.  A cikin 1934, ita kadai ce 'yar Afirka da ta shiga tattaunawa tare da Margery Perham a Royal Society of Arts, kuma ta yi amfani da damar ta soki Ubangiji Lugard da mulkin mallaka na Afirka a gaban masu sauraro masu tasiri. Lokacin da ta dawo Afirka ta Yamma, ita ce mace ta farko da ta fara lauya a yankin. 

Bayan dawowarta Afirka ta Yamma, da farko ta yi rajista a mashaya Saliyo kuma a watan Disambar shekarar 1935, ta dawo Legas ta kafa aikin lauya a kan titin Kakawa, Tsibirin Lagos . Ta yi aiki a kan batutuwan shari'a da yawa, gami da shari'o'in aikata laifi da matsalolin dangi, sannan ta yi aiki tare da lauyoyi Alex EJ Taylor da Eric Moore. 

A shekarar 1943, ta zama mace ta farko da ta yanke hukunci a yankin Afirka ta Yamma,  aiki a kotun majistare da ke Ikeja tare da ikon gundumomin Mushin, Agege da Ikorodu .  Daga baya ta zama majistare a gidan kotun Saint Anna da kuma Kotun Botanical Gardens a Ebute-Metta .  Ta yi ritaya a matsayin alkalin alkalai a Saliyo a 1971.

Rayuwa 
A watan Nuwamba na shekarar 1944, Stella Thomas ta auri wani ɗan ƙwararren masanin shari'a, Richard Bright Marke, a Freetown. Ta mutu a shekarar 1974, tana da shekaru 68 a duniya.

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