Amos Tutuola

Amos Tutuola was born in 1920 in Abeokuta, into a Yoruba family of cocoa farmers. A blacksmith, then a messenger at the Ministry of Labour, he had only six years of schooling. He was the first African writer read throughout the world, and his use of faulty English shocked the Nigerian elite as much as it thrilled Europe. He published about ten books, worked as a civil servant all his life, and died in Ibadan in 1997.

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• NovelThe Palm-Wine DrinkardAmos Tutuola · 1952Literature