Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Sarah Ladipo Manyika (an haife ta 7 Maris 1968) marubuciya ce 'yar asalin Burtaniya- 'yar asalin Najeriya wacce take rubuce-rubucen litattafai, gajerun labarai da kuma makaloli. Ita ce marubuciya guda biyu da aka karɓa sosai, In Dependence (2009) da Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016), kuma yana da aikin bugawa a cikin wallafe-wallafe ciki har da Granta, Transition, Guernica, da OZY, a halin yanzu yana aiki a matsayin Editan Littattafai na OZY. Ayyukan Manyika kuma yana cikin fasalin 2019 New Daughters of Africa.

Farkon rayuwa 
Sarah Manyika an haife ta kuma ta girma a Nijeriya. Ta kuma zauna a Kenya, Faransa, Zimbabwe, da Burtaniya. Mahaifinta dan Najeriya ne kuma mahaifiyarsa ‘yar Birtaniya ce. Manyika ta gaji sunan haihuwarta (Ladipo) daga mahaifinta, wanda aka haifa a garin Ibadan (Kudu Maso Yammacin Najeriya) a ƙarshen 1930s. Mahaifinta ya sadu kuma ya auri mahaifiyarta a cikin Burtaniya a cikin shekarun 1960s. Sarah ta kwashe mafi yawan yarinta a Legas da kuma garin Jos a Jihar Filato. Yayinda take matashiya, ta zauna tsawon shekaru biyu a Nairobi, Kenya, kafin dangin ta su koma Burtaniya.

Ayyuka 
Manyika ta yi karatu a Jami'o'in Birmingham (UK), Bordeaux (Faransa), da California (Berkeley), inda ta sami Ph.D daga na biyun. Ta yi aure a Harare, Zimbabwe, a 1994, kuma yanzu tana raba lokacinta tsakanin San Francisco (inda ta koyar da adabi a Jami'ar Jihar San Francisco), London da Harare.

Rubuce-rubucen nata sun hada da kasidu da aka wallafa, takardun ilimi, bitar littattafai da gajerun labarai. Gajeren labarinta mai suna "Mr Wonder" ya bayyana a cikin littafin 2008 Women Writing Zimbabwe. Littafinta na farko, In Dependence, asali an buga shi a farko Jaridar Legend, London ce ta buga shi a shekarar 2008, kuma babbar shagon sayar da litattafai ta Burtaniya ta zabi shi a matsayin littafin da ya fito da shi na watan Black History Month. A 2009, In ​​Dependence, Cassava Republic ce ta buga shi, wata jaridar wallafe-wallafen da ke zaune a Abuja, Nijeriya (da kuma na baya-bayan nan, a Burtaniya), tare da wadatattun marubuta waɗanda suka haɗa da Teju Cole da Helon Habila. Da take magana game da shawarar da ta yanke na sa hannu tare da wani mawallafin Afirka, Manyika ta ce: "Na fahimci cewa ta hanyar bayar da haƙƙin duniya ga wani mawallafin Afirka zan iya, a wata ƙaramar hanya, tooƙarin magance rashin daidaiton iko a cikin duniyar da masu tsaron ƙofofin adabi, har ma da abin da ake kira labaran Afirka, suna da tushe a yamma." A shekarar 2014, kamfanin Weaver Press ya buga In Dependence a kasar Zimbabwe, in da yake wani littafi ne tsayayyen wanda ya dace da shi domin ci gaban Adabin Ingilishi. Hakanan an gabatar da In Dependence ta hanyar JAMB a Nijeriya don candidatesan takarar da ke zaune a 2017 UTME.

Littafin na biyu na Manyika, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun, a kan buga shi a cikin bazarar 2016 wasu marubuta da yawa sun amince da shi, gami da Bernardine Evaristo ("Labarin Manyika game da wata tsohuwa 'yar Najeriya ba shi da nutsuwa, yana da wayewa kuma yana faɗaɗa kundin adabin zamani na Afirka zuwa maraba da sabon yanki"),

Aminatta Forna ("kyakkyawa kuma kyakkyawa ce aka kirkira ... Labarin Sarah Manyika yana nuna mutane na gari cikin mafi kyawun su. lifaukakawa!"), NoViolet Bulawayo ("Mai hankali, mai son sha'awa, mai ban dariya, da motsi"),  Jamal Mahjoub ("Manyika tana rubutu da babbar murya da nutsuwa, tana haskaka halayenta da wayewar kai"), Peter Orner ("Kyakkyawan, muhimmin sabon labari, kuma wanda zai ci gaba da yin kuwwa a cikin tunanin mai karatu na dogon lokaci bayan"), E. C. Osondu ("wanda ba za a iya mantawa da shi ba ... tunani mai ƙarfi kan rashi, ƙwaƙwalwar ajiya, ƙaura da kadaici. Abubuwan haruffa a cikin wannan littafin zasu kasance tare da ku "), kuma Brian Chikwava ("Wani ƙagaggen labari ne, koyaushe abin mamaki ne"). An fassara shi zuwa harsuna da yawa.

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun an jera shi a cikin Satumba 2016 don Goldsmiths Prize (tare da littattafai ta Rachel Cusk, Deborah Levy, Eimear McBride, Mike McCormack and Anakana Schofield), "labari na farko na Afirka da aka fara tunanin samun wannan kyautar", wanda aka kirkireshi don bayar da lada ga almara wanda ya karya tsarin ko ya faɗaɗa damar sabonn littafin. Hakanan an zaba littafin don kyautar California Book Award a cikin labaran almara (tare da ayyukan irin waɗannan marubutan  Andrew Sean Greer, Percival Everett, and Viet Thanh Nguyen). Na farawa don Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun Manyika ta ce: "Na sadu da tsofaffi mata da yawa waɗanda suka yi rayuwa mai launuka iri-iri, amma duk da haka idan ya zo ga almara, ban sami labarai da yawa da ke nuna wannan ba, musamman idan ya zo ga rayuwar baƙar fata mata. Lokacin da ba zan iya samun labaran da zan so karantawa ba, sai in gwada rubuta su da kaina." Sunan labarin sabon layi ne da aka yarda dashi daga wata waka da Mary Ruefle ta kira "Donkey On".

Manyika ita ce mai ba da gudummawa ga tarihin 2019  New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent, edita daga Margaret Busby, shiga cikin abubuwan haɗi.

Rubuce-rubuce marasa almara na Manyika sun haɗa da kasidu na sirri da kuma bayanan zurfin bayanan mutanen da ta haɗu da su, gami da Evan Mawarire, Toni Morrison and Michelle Obama.

Manyika tana aiki a kan allunan Hedgebrook da Museum of the African Diaspora(MOAD) a San Francisco. Ta kuma dauki bakuncin jerin bidiyo na OZY, Rubuta, kuma a yanzu haka ita ce Editan na mujallar.[1] Ta kuma taba zama alkali a gasar adabi, da Etisalat Prize for Literature a 2014 da kuma Goldsmiths Prize a 2020. Manyika ta gabatar da jerin hirarraki na fim kowane wata don MOAD, wanda ake kira "Conversations Across the Diaspora", kuma baƙunta daga ko'ina cikin duniya sun haɗa  Ibrahim Mahama, Jess Cole, Strive Masiyiwa, Tatyana Ali, and Anna Deavere Smith.

Rayuwar Aure 
Ta auri :en:James Manyika a Harare, Zimbabwe a shekara ta 1994.

Ayyuka

Litattafai 

 In Dependence (Legend Press, 2008; Cassava Republic Press, 2009)
 Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (Cassava Republic Press, 2016,

Gajerun labarai 

 "Mr Wonder" in Women Writing Zimbabwe (Weaver Press, 2008)
 "Modupe" in African Love Stories (Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd, 2006)
 "Girlfriend" in Fathers & Daughters (Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd, 2008)
 "The Ambassador's Wife" a cikin Margaret Busby (edita), New Daughters of Africa (Myriad Editions, 2019)

Littafin surori 

 "Oyinbo" in Prolematizing Blackness (Routledge, 2003)

Zaɓaɓɓun rubutun 

 "Coming of Age in the Time of the Hoodie", Guernica, 23 Yuni 2015.
 "Betting on Africa", Brittle Paper, 28 Maris 2016.
 "For the Love of Older Characters in Good Books", OZY, 29 Oktoba 2017.
 "Game of Tomes: The Struggle for Literary Prizes", OZY, 2 Nuwamba 2017.
 "On Meeting Toni Morrison", Transition, No. 124, Writing Black Canadas (2017), pp. 138–147. Indiana University Press/Hutchins Center for African and African American Research a Jami'ar Harvard.
 "What James Baldwin Means To Me", Brittle Paper, 4 Maris 2019.
 "On Meeting Mrs Obama", Granta 146: The Politics of Feeling, 22 Maris 2019.

Rahoton bincike 

 Ph.D. Programs in African Universities: Current Status and Future Prospects. Report to the Rockefeller Foundation. Haɗin gwiwa tare da David Szanton (Jami'ar Berkeley, California, 2002).

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