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Amos Tutuola (Amos Olatubosun Tutuola Odegbami) was born on 20 June, 1920 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, is a Nigerian writer. Discover Amos Tutuola's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

Popular As Amos Olatubosun Tutuola Odegbami
Occupation N/A
Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 20 June 1920
Birthday 20 June
Birthplace Abeokuta, Nigeria
Date of death 8 June, 1997
Died Place Ibadan, Nigeria
Nationality Niger

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1842

His grandfather the Odafin of Egbaland, Chief Odegbami (c. 1842–1936), patriarch of the Odegbami clan, was a chieftain of the Egba people and a traditional worshipper of the Yoruba religion.

His title, "Odafin" (literally "the establisher of laws" or "lawgiver" in Yoruba), signified that he had an administrative position within the traditional administration of Egbaland, and that he was one of the Iwarefa of the Ogboni.

1845

Wasinmi was a small farming village founded between the years 1845 and 1880 by constituents of the Egba subethnic group from Abeokuta.

Tutuola's father and grandfather belonged to this subethnic group.

Amos was the youngest son of his father; his mother was his father's third wife.

1920

Amos Tutuola (Ámósì Tutùọlá; 20 June 1920 – 8 June 1997) was a Nigerian writer who wrote books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales.

Amos Olatubosun Tutuola Odegbami was born on 20 June 1920, in Wasinmi, a village just a few miles outside of Abeokuta, Nigeria, where his parents, Charles Tutuola Odegbami and Esther Aina Odegbami, who were Yoruba Christian cocoa farmers, lived.

1927

When Amos was seven years old, in 1927, he became a servant for F. O. Monu, an Igbo man, who sent him to the Salvation Army primary school in lieu of wages.

At age 12, he attended the Anglican Central School in Abeokuta.

1934

His brief education was limited to six years (from 1934 to 1939).

1936

After his grandfather's death in 1936, most members of the chief's family decided to adopt the European style of naming and take his name, Odegbami, as their last name.

However, several other family members, including Amos, decided to take their father's name, Tutuola, instead.

1939

When his father died in 1939, Tutuola left school to train as a blacksmith, the trade he practised from 1942 to 1945 for the Royal Air Force in Nigeria during WWII.

He subsequently tried a number of other vocations, including selling bread and acting as messenger for the Nigerian Department of Labour.

1946

In 1946, Tutuola completed his first full-length book, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, within two days.

Tutuola's most famous novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town, was written in 1946, first published in 1952 in London by Faber and Faber, then translated and published in Paris as L'Ivrogne dans la brousse by Raymond Queneau in 1953.

Poet Dylan Thomas brought it to wide attention, calling it "brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching".

Although the book was praised in England and the United States, it faced severe criticism in Tutuola's native Nigeria.

Part of this criticism was due to his use of "broken English" and "primitive" style, which supposedly promoted the Western stereotype of "African backwardness".

This line of criticism has, however, lost steam.

In the opinion of Taban Lo Liyong:

Omolara Ogundipe-Leslie in her own reassessment wrote in The Journal of Commonwealth Studies:

O. R. Dathorne additionally said:

1947

In 1947, he married Victoria Alake, with whom he had four sons and four daughters; he would also marry 3 other wives.

He is the uncle of the Nigerian footballers Segun Odegbami and Wole Odegbami.

Despite his short formal education, Tutuola wrote his novels in English.

1954

The Palm-Wine Drinkard was followed by My Life in the Bush of Ghosts in 1954 and then several other books in which Tutuola continued to explore Yoruba traditions and folklore, although none of the subsequent works managed to match the success of The Palm Wine Drinkard.

1956

In 1956, after he had written his first three books and become internationally famous, he joined the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in Ibadan, Western Nigeria as a storekeeper.

Tutuola also became one of the founders of the Mbari Club, the writers' and publishers' organization.

1958

His 1958 work, The Brave African Huntress, was illustrated by Ben Enwonwu.

1963

Wole Soyinka wrote in 1963:

1979

In 1979, he held a visiting research fellowship at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) at Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and in 1983 he was an associate of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

In retirement he divided his time between residences Ibadan and Ago-Odo.

1981

Brian Eno and David Byrne named their 1981 album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts after Tutuola's second novel.

1997

Tutuola died at the age of 76 on 8 June 1997 from hypertension and diabetes.

Many of his papers, letters, and holographic manuscripts have been collected at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin.

Tutuola's works have been translated into 11 languages, including French, German, Russian, and Polish.

Some translators, notably Raymond Queneau (French) and Ernestyna Skurjat (Polish), deliberately adjusted the grammar and syntax of the translations to reflect the occasionally atypical language of Tutuola's original prose.

2015

In 2015, the Society of Young Nigerian Writers, under the leadership of Wole Adedoyin, founded the Amos Tutuola Literary Society, aimed at promoting and reading Tutuola's works.

In 2021, Will Alexander published a long poem – 'Based on the Bush of Ghosts' – in honour of Tutuola.