Tag: Amos Tutuola
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https://encyclopedia.litcaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Untitled-design-3-1.mp4 Amos Tutuola; (1920-97) Novelist counted among a unique group of mythmakers who deployed significant aspects of oral tradition not just as a flowery tribute to literary distinctiveness, but as a culminated contribution to the Nigerian literary space with both a didactic and functional signature. Tutuola is known for novels that chronicle tales of marvels…
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https://encyclopedia.litcaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Untitled-design-3-1.mp4 Palm Wine Drinkard is the first person narrative novel by Amos Tutuola, published in 1952 in London by Faber & Faber. The author, who sparsely showed any ambitions for his own craft, had penned the book within a few days in 1946. The novel recounted the mythological tale of a drunken man, who follows…