Imbolo Mbu
Imbolo Mbue (an haife ta a shekara ta 1981) marubuciya yar ƙasar Kamaru ce kuma marubuciyar gajerun labari wanda ke zaune a birnin New York. An san ta da littafinta na halarta na farko Ga Masu Mafarki (2016), wanda ya ba ta lambar yabo ta PEN/Faulkner don Fiction da Kalmomin Metropolis na Blue don Canja lambar yabo.  Ayyukanta sun samo asali daga abubuwan da ta samu a matsayinta na baƙi, da kuma abubuwan da suka faru na sauran baƙi.

Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haifi Mbue a cikin shekara ta alif dubu ɗaya da ɗari tara da tamanin da ɗaya (1981) a Limbe, Kamaru, a yankin masu magana da Ingilishi na kasar, inda ta tashi har zuwa lokacin da dangi suka dauki nauyin karatunta na ilimi a Amurka. 

Bayan ta kammala karatun digirinta na farko da na biyu, ta fara aikin tallata wa wani kamfanin yada labarai, wanda ta rasa a lokacin koma bayan tattalin arziki. A cikin wannan lokacin, Mbue ta lura da bambancin azuzuwan yayin da take tafiya cikin birnin New York, inda ta lura da direbobin taksi waɗanda galibi bakar fata ne, suna jiran tukin shugabannin. Wannan ne ya kafa tushen littafinta na Ga Masu Mafarki (2016). 

Rubutun Mbue, musamman Ga Masu Mafarki, na neman bincika batutuwa game da sarkar manufofin shige da fice na Amurka da nasarori, da kuma gaba ɗaya, bin Mafarkin Amurka. A cewar Mbue, littafin ya haɗu da abubuwan da haruffan suka ji da kuma nata: gwagwarmayar kuɗi, rashin bege, sake kimanta manufofin mutum, da gwagwarmaya a matsayin ɗan gudun hijira. Ta jaddada mahimmancin wallafe-wallafen da ke ba da tausayi, wanda take jin cewa ba shi da shi a cikin manufofin shige da fice da kuma siyasar gaba ɗaya. Littafin Mbue na shekara 2021 Yadda Kyawun Mu Ya ɗauka kan rikicin muhalli a Afirka, sakamakon kwaɗayin kamfanoni. 

Mbue ta zama ɗan ƙasar Amurka a cikin shekara ta 2014, kuma a halin yanzu tana zaune a birnin New York tare da mijinta da 'ya'yanta.

Sana'a kuma Ga Masu Mafarki 
Mbue ya zo Amurka a shekarar 1998 don nazarin harkokin kasuwanci a matsayin dalibi na farko a Jami'ar Rutgers. Bayan kammala karatunsa a shekara ta 2002, ta ci gaba da kammala MA daga Jami'ar Columbia, a shekara 2006. Ta fara aiki a sashen kamfanoni a birnin New York, amma ta rasa aikinta kamar yadda miliyoyin Amurkawa suka yi a lokacin Babban koma bayan tattalin arziki.

A cikin shekara ta 2014, ta sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar dala miliyan tare da Gidan Random don littafinta na farko ga Mafarki, wanda aka buga a cikin shekara ta 2016. Littafin labari ya sami yabo mai mahimmanci, a cewar NPR, yadda yake "yana nuna wata ƙasa mai albarka da halaka, a saman duniya, amma ko da yaushe yana cikin haɗarin rasa ma'auni. Yana da, a wasu kalmomi, ainihin Amurka." 

A cewar jaridar Washington Post  Charles, yayin da fitar da littafin ya zo daidai da zaben shugaban kasa na shekara ta 2016, tare da lafazin "ƙin-baƙin haure" da 'yan takara da magoya bayansu suka kawo haske, littafin ya kawo haske da "babban tsarin mulki". tsara don katanga Mafarkin Amurka daga waje".  A cikin shekara ta 2017, Oprah Winfrey ta zaɓi littafin don ƙungiyar littafinta.

Mbue mai ba da gudummawa ce ga tarihin sabbin ƴan matan Afirka (wanda Margaret Busby ta shirya, a shekarar 2019).

Littattafai 

 Ga Masu Mafarki, 2016, 
 Voici venir les rêveurs (fassarar Faransanci), 2016, 
 Das geträumte Land (fassarar Jamus), 2017, 
 Yadda Muka Yi Kyau, 2021, 
 Puissions-nous vivre longtemps (Fassarar Faransa ta Catherine Gilbert), Éditions Belfond, 2021

Manazarta 

Rayayyun mutane
Haifaffun 1981