Umunya-Ghana w’umwanditsi Ama Ata Aidoo yapfuye
Pr. Ama Ata Aidoo wari umwanditsi w’umusizi ndetse n’ikinamico ukomoka muri Ghana yapfuye ku myaka 81 y’amavuko.
Aidoo wari icyamamare kubera umwuga we utangaje mu myaka mirongo itanu ishize yapfuye mu gitondo cyo kuri uyu wa gatatu tariki 31 Gicurasi 2023. Nkuko byatangajwe n’uwahagarariye umuryango we Kwamena Essandoh.
Ati: “Umuryango wa Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo ufite agahinda gakomeye ariko twizeye yagiye ku Mana, turamenyesha rubanda muri rusange ko umuvandimwe dukunda ndetse n’umwanditsi twakundaga yitabye Imana mu rukerera rwo kuri uyu wa gatatu tariki ya 31 Gicurasi 2023, nyuma y’uburwayi yarwaye bitamaze igihe.
“Imihango ijyanye n’ishyingurwa n’ibindi bikorwa bizatangazwa vuba, umuryango urakomeza kwihanganisha buri wese muri ibi bihe bitoroshye.”
Uyu mwanditsi yagiye yishimirwa bikomeye ku bw’ibikorwa bye yagiye akora nk’umugore ukomoka muri Afurika mu bitabo birimo nka The Dilemma of a Ghost, Our Sister Kilijoy kandi byagize impinduka. Yagiye agaragaza ko ari “Imyumvire y’abakomoka mu Burengerazuba bwa Afurika ari ishyano ryakandamijwe.”
Yabaye kandi Minisitiri w’Uburezi muri Ghana mu ntangiriro ya za 1980 ariko yaje kwegura ubwo hakurwaho kwigira ubuntu.
Ata yatsindiye ibihembo byinshi byubuvanganzo kubera ibitabo yanditse, amakinamico ndetse n’imivugo, harimo igihembo cy’abanditsi ba Commonwealth mu 1992 chaise impinduka, inkuru y’urukundo ivuga ku mibare y’ibarurishamibare yagatanya n’umugabo we wa mbere maze yinjira mu bashatse bafite abagore benshi.
Ibikorwa bye, harimo amakinamico nka Anowa, byasomwe mu mashuri yo muri Afurika y’Iburengerazuba, hamwe n’ibikorwa by’abandi bakomeye nka Wole Soyinka na Chinua Achebe. Yagize uruhare runini ku rubyiruko rw’abanditsi, harimo na Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wegukanye igihembo cya Nigeria.
Umuhanzi w’icyamamare muri Afrobeats wo muri Nigeria Burna Boy yunze murye ashyira hanze amajwi yanengaga ubukoloni no gukoresha umutungo wa Afurika mu ndirimbo ye Monsters You Made in 2020.
