Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (wɔwoo no 13 September 1967) yɛ Ghana-Amerikani ɔkyerɛwfo, samufo, nsɛm ho amanneɛbɔfo ne baguam ɔkasafo, a ne dzin wɔ awo mu ne Mildred Mary Nana-Ama Boakyewaa Brobby.[1] Wonim no yiye wɔ ne 1998 nkae nhoma Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression no ho. N'asɛm tiawa "Bere a Ɔbarima Dɔ Ɔbaa" no, wɔpaw no tiawa maa afe 2022 AKO Caine Nkonimdi a ɛfa Afrikafo Nkyerɛwee ho.[2]

Wɔwoo no 13 September 1967 (mfe 55) Accra, Ghana

Adwuma:Ɔkyerɛwfo

Ɔman:Amerika

Adwuma a ɛda nsowWillow Su ma Me: Ɔbea Abibifo Akwantu a Ɔnam Adwennwen Mu (1998)

EbusuafoJ. B. Danquah (ɛna ne nana);

Paul Danquah (wɔfa) .

Obra

Wɔwoo Danquah wɔ Accra, Ghana, na ne maame ne Josephine Nana Korantemaa Danquah ne Norbert Duke Brobby.[3] Ne maame nana ne Ɔbenfo J. B. Danquah, ɔkyerɛwfo ne Ghana amammui mu nipa a wagye din,[4] na na ɔyɛ odiyifo Paul Danquah nuabea, a wakyerɛw ne ho asɛm wɔ The Washington Post mu.[5]

Danquah tu kɔɔ United States bere a na wadi mfe asia sɛ ɔne ne maame a na otu kɔɔ hɔ mfe abiɛsa a atwam ni[6] kɔtena Howard Sukuupɔn.[1] N’awofo gyaee aware mfe asia akyi, na wɔtetew mu bere a Danquah dii mfe 11.[1] Bere a na ɔkɔ Foxcroft, mmeawa nyinaa sukuu a wɔtra mu a ɛwɔ Middleburg, Virginia no, Danquah sii gyinae sɛ ɔbɛsesa ne din afi Mildred Brobby akɔ Meri Danquah.[1]: 130 Bere a ogyaee Maryland Sukuupɔn no,[3] awiei koraa no otu kɔɔ hɔ kɔɔ Los Angeles bere a na wadi mfe 20.[1]: 27

Danquah woo ne babaa wɔ afe 1991 mu,[1]: 39 na wɔne Danquah adamfo abarimaa a na ɔwɔ hɔ saa berɛ no ne ne babaa no agya tenaa. Bere a wɔde ahyɛde a ɛbɛma wɔabara ne babea no papa a egyina ofie basabasayɛ so kɔe akyi no,[1]: 41 Danquah ne ne babea san tu kɔɔ Washington DC, faako a na n’awofo ne ne nuabea da so ara te no. Bere a na ɔwɔ DC no, Danquah hui sɛ ɔwɔ adwenemhaw a ɛwɔ ayaresabea, yare a ɛbɛyɛ nea obegyina so ayɛ ne nkae nhoma Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression, a wotintimii wɔ 1998 mu ma ɛkamfoo no kɛse. [9] . Wotintim nhoma no mu nsɛm bi wɔ nhoma a wɔaboaboa ano a wɔato din Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness mu.[10] Ɔman Adwene ne Nkate Ho Akwahosan Fekuw no paw Danquah sɛ wɔn Campaign on Clinical Depression, a nhyehyɛe a wɔde sii Afrikafo-Amerikafo mmea so titiriw no kasamafo.[11][12]

Wɔ afe 1999 mu no, Danquah nyaa ne Master of Fine Arts abodin krataa wɔ Adebɔ Akyerɛw ne Nwoma mu, de n’adwene sii Adebɔ a Ɛnyɛ Ayɛsɛm so, wɔ Bennington College, ɛmfa ho sɛ wanwie abodin krataa a ɛdi kan da.[3] Wakyerɛ ade wɔ Ghana Sukuupɔn mu, wɔ Otis College of Art and Design, ne Antioch College MFA nhyehyɛe mu, na wɔhwehwɛ no sɛ ɔkasafo ne ɔkyerɛkyerɛfo.[3]

Ɔsan nso asiesie mmea nkyerɛwee a wɔaboaboa ano, a Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women (2003) ka ho, a Maya Angelou kaa ho asɛm wɔ asɛm bi a ɔkae wɔ anim asɛm bi mu sɛ: "Ms. Danquah awosow nhoma dua bi ampa." Aduaba a ɛhwee ase no bɛma akenkanfo aduan akyɛ...."[13]

Wɔ afe 2011 mu no, Danquah de too gua sɛ ɔreyɛ ayɛsɛm bi.[14] Ɔakyerɛw nsɛm ne nsɛm a wɔakyerɛw wɔ nhoma ahorow a The Washington Post, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, Allure, Essence, The Africa Report ne The Daily Graphic ka ho mu.[14] Ɔyɛ Afrika nhoma ne amammerɛ ho samufo panyin wɔ Los Angeles Review buukuu mu.[5]

Ɔyɛ obi a ɔboaa 2019 nhoma a wɔaboaboa ano New Daughters of Africa, a Margaret Busby na ɔhyehyɛɛ no, a ɔde nkae nhoma "Saying Goodbye to Mary Danquah".[15]

Wɔ June 2022 mu no, wɔde n'asɛm "When a Man Loves a Woman", a mfiase no wotintimii wɔ Accra Noir no too gua wɔ Caine Prize for African Writing no din tiawa mu,[16] na Doreen Baingana kaa ho asɛm wɔ Brittle Paper mu sɛ "ɛyɛ anigye." asiane, abotɔyam ne ahintasɛm a ɛwɔ ɔdɔ mu ho adesua".[17]

Nhoma ahorow a wɔahyehyɛ

Ɔkyerɛfo

• Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression, W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, ISBN 9780393045673

Ɔkyerɛwfo

• Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women, W. W. Norton, 2003, ISBN 978-0393050677

• The Black Body, Seven Stories Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1583228890

• Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women, Hyperion Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0786865895

• American Woman: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women (Expanded Second Edition), Seven Stories Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1609804084

• Accra Noir, Akashic Books, 2020, ISBN 9781617758898

Nsɛm a wɔakyerɛw ne nsɛm a wɔapaw

• "Life as an Alien", in O'Hearn, Claudine Chiawei (ed.), Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural (Pantheon Books, 1998), The Washington Post, 17 May 1998.

• "What I Learned From My Auntie Maya", Wall Street Journal, 28 May 2014.

• "A Different Breed" (memoir excerpt), Kweli, 9 August 2014.

• "Afro-Kinky Human Hair", in: Everything But The Burden: What White People Are Taking From Black Culture, edited by Greg Tate, 2003, New York: Harlem Moon Broadway Books, ISBN 978-0-7679-1497-0

• "Saying Goodbye to Mary Danquah", in New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, 2019. London: Myriad Editions; New York: Amistad Press.

• "When A Man Loves A Woman", Accra Noir, 2020.[18]