The Village Witch Doctor Summary
Amos Tutuola

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The Village Witch Doctor Summary

Amos Tutuola's story "The Village Witch Doctor" was originally published as part of the 1967 novel Ajaiyi and His Inherited Poverty and then as the title story in his 1990 collection, The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories. Tutuola is known as the first African writer to gain international recognition. This story is one of many loosely based on Yoruba folktales of the oral tradition, which Tutuola heard as a child. Tutuola's non-standard form of...

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