Ngo-13:00 ngesikhathi sendawo ngo-Okthoba 7, 2021 eStockholm, eSweden (19:00 isikhathi saseBeijing), iSikole SaseSweden saklomelisa uMklomelo KaNobel wezincwadi ngo-2021 kumbhali waseTanzania u-abdulrazak gurnah. Inkulumo yokuklonyeliswa ibithi: “ngenxa yokuqonda kwakhe okungaguquki nobubele ngomthelela wobukoloni kanye nesiphetho sababaleki egebeni eliphakathi kwamasiko nezwekazi.”
UGulna (owazalwa eZanzibar ngo-1948), oneminyaka engama-73 ubudala, ungumbhali wezincwadi waseTanzania. Ubhala ngesiNgisi futhi manje uhlala eBrithani. Inoveli yakhe edume kakhulu ithi ipharadesi (1994), efakwe ohlwini olufushane lomklomelo weBooker kanye nomklomelo weWhitbread, kwathi ukulahlwa (2005) kanye nolwandle (2001) bahlungwa ukuthola umklomelo weBooker kanye neLos Angeles Times Book Award.
Uke wazifunda yini izincwadi noma amazwi akhe? Iwebhusayithi esemthethweni yoMklomelo KaNobel ikhiphe uhlu lwemibuzo. Ngesikhathi sokushicilela, u-95% wabantu uthe “awukawufundi”.
UGulna wazalelwa eZanzibar Island ogwini lwaseMpumalanga Afrika waya eNgilandi ukuyofunda ngo-1968. Kusukela ngo-1980 kuya ku-1982, u-gulna wafundisa eNyuvesi yaseBayero eKano, eNigeria. Wabe eseya eNyuvesi yase-Kent futhi wathola iziqu zakhe zobudokotela ngo-1982. Manje usenguprofesa kanye nomqondisi oneziqu emnyangweni wesiNgisi. Izithakazelo zakhe eziyinhloko zezemfundo ukubhala kwe-postcolonial kanye nezingxoxo ezihlobene nobukoloni, ikakhulukazi lezo ezihlobene ne-Afrika, i-Caribbean ne-India.
Wahlela imiqulu emibili yezindatshana eziphathelene nokubhalwa kwe-Afrika futhi washicilela izindatshana eziningi ezikhuluma ngababhali besikhathi sangemva kobukoloni, kuhlanganise no-v. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, njll. Ungumhleli wenkampani yaseCambridge ku-Rushdie (2007). Ube ngumhleli onikelayo wephephabhuku i-wasafiri kusukela ngo-1987.
Ngokusho kwe-tweet esemthethweni yoMklomelo KaNobel, u-abdullahzak gulna ushicilele amanoveli ayishumi nezindaba eziningi ezimfushane, futhi ingqikithi "yesiphithiphithi sababaleki" ihamba ngemisebenzi yakhe. Waqala ukubhala lapho efika eBrithani engumbaleki eneminyaka engu-21. Nakuba isiSwahili siwulimi lwakhe lokuqala, isiNgisi siwulimi lwakhe oluyinhloko lokubhala. Ukuphikelela kukaGulner eqinisweni nokuphikisa kwakhe ukucabanga okwenziwe lula kuyancomeka. Amanoveli akhe ayayishiya incazelo eqinile futhi asenze sibone i-East Africa enamasiko amaningi abantu kwezinye izingxenye eziningi zomhlaba abangayijwayele.
Emhlabeni wokubhala we-gulna, yonke into iyashintsha - inkumbulo, igama, ubuwena. Zonke izincwadi zakhe zikhombisa ukuhlola okungapheli okuqhutshwa isifiso solwazi, esigqame kakhulu encwadini ethi afterlife (2020). Lokhu kuhlola akukaze kushintshe kusukela aqala ukubhala eneminyaka engu-21.
Isikhathi sokuthumela: Oct-09-2021