Biography EssayAmos Tutuola is one of the great eccentrics in African literature. Born to Charles (a cocoa farmer) and Esther Aina Tutuola in Abeokuta, Western Nigeria, in 1920, educated no more than ...
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The Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola (1920-1997) is famous for his fantastic tales which, in their content, depend heavily on the folklore of his ancestral Yoruba people.Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta ...
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Amos Tutuola is one of the great eccentrics in African literature. Born to Charles (a cocoa farmer) and Esther Aina Tutuola in Abeokuta, Western Nigeria, in 1920, educated no more than six years in mi...
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Critical Essay by John V. Murra
In 1952 the United Society for Christian Literature in London received for publication a manuscript from Lagos, Nigeria, whose author was Amos Tutuola, a messenger in a...
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Critical Essay by Margaret Laurence
Amos Tutuola's strangely poetic writing was quick to gain recognition in England and America, but in his own country it was at first widely criticised becaus...
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Critical Essay by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
[In Feather Woman of the Jungle] Tutuola's raconteur, in accordance with African tradition, is an old man, the typical sage who passes on his experie...
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Critical Essay by Nancy J. Schmidt
Although Tutuola includes numerous proverbs and proverbial references in Witch-Herbalist, as in his other narratives, they are not used to reinforce a consistent mor...
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Critical Essay by Arnold Goldman
[In Ajaiyi and His Inherited Poverty] Amos Tutuola is being like these French songstresses who sing in this land for decades of years but whose English speaking is sti...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
We are reminded [in Ajaiyi and His Inherited Poverty] of Bunyan and of the Harrowing of Hell. Part of the delightfulness of [Tutuola's] work stem...
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Critical Essay by Chinua Achebe
[Tutuola] is the most moralistic of all Nigerian writers…. [He] has his two feet firmly planted in the hard soil of an ancient oral and moral tradition.
Of cours...
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Critical Essay by Eustace Palmer
In order to establish [Tutuola's] position in African literature and to estimate him properly, it is essential to be clear about the genre in which he wrote. It...
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Critical Essay by Bernth Lindfors
Tutuola had written another long narrative entitled "The Wild Hunter in the Bush of the Ghosts" before he wrote The Palm-Wine Drinkard. (p. 46)
The tale...
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Critical Essay by Abiola Irele
There is a great amount of misunderstanding involved in the reputation that Tutuola has enjoyed outside Nigeria, and especially in Western countries. It was thought that...
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Critical Essay by Edward Blishen
Even Amos Tutuola's earlier books have not given me so strong a sensation [as does The Witch Herbalist of the Remote Town] of being nine or ten again and hearin...
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Amos Tutuola
Amos Tutuola
