Amos Tutuola
Born
in Nigeria
June 20, 1920
Died
June 08, 1997
Genre
Influences
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
63 editions
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published
1952
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard & My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
by
14 editions
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published
1952
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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
38 editions
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published
1954
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Feather Woman of the Jungle
10 editions
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published
1962
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Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle
9 editions
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published
1955
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The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories
4 editions
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published
1990
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Pauper, Brawler, and Slanderer
6 editions
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published
1987
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The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town
7 editions
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published
1982
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Yoruba Folktales
2 editions
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published
1987
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The brave African huntress
14 editions
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published
1958
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“I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age. I had no other work more than to drink palm-wine in my life. - - - But when my father noticed that I could not do any work more than to drink, he engaged an expert palm-wine-tapster for me; he had no other work more than to tap palm-wine every day. So my father gave me a palm-tree farm which was nine miles square and it contained 560,000 palm-trees, and this palm-wine tapster was tapping one hundred and fifty kegs of palm-wine every morning, but before 2 o’clock p.m., I would have drunk it all; after that he would go and tap another 75 kegs.”
― The Palm-Wine Drinkard
― The Palm-Wine Drinkard
“We had sold our death to somebody at the door for the sum of £70:18:6d and lent our fear to somebody at the door as well on interest of £3:10:0d per month, so we did not care about death and we did not fear again.”
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