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Daniel O. Fagunwa (Daniel Oròwọlé Fágúnwà) was born on 1903 in Oke-Igbo, Nigeria, is a Nigerian author. Discover Daniel O. Fagunwa'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 60 years old?

Popular As Daniel Oròwọlé Fágúnwà
Occupation teacher, author
Age 60 years old
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Born 1903
Birthday 1903
Birthplace Oke-Igbo, Nigeria
Date of death 7 December, 1963
Died Place Bida, Nigeria
Nationality Niger

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His wife is Chief Elizabeth Adebanke Fágúnwà (1932–2018)

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1870

When he arrived to Ile-Ife, in the 1870s, he became the native herbalist and Ifa priest for the future Ooni of Ife, Ologbenla.

After the war between the Ondo and Ife ended, many warriors were allowed to enter a new settlement they called "Oko-Igbo" meaning Farm in the Forest, and later became Òkè-Igbó.

Asungaga had four surviving children, Ifatosa, Akintunde Fagunwa (who later took the name Joshua), Ifabunmi (later married and took the last name Ajibise), and Philip Odugbemi.

1903

Daniel Oròwọlé Fágúnwà was born in Òkè-Igbó, Ondo State in 1903, to Joshua Akíntúndé Fágúnwà and Rachel Òṣunyọmí Fágúnwà.

He had three sisters, Mary Adéyẹmí, Ojúọlápé and Ọmọ́túndé.

Prior to his family's conversion to Christianity, his name was Oròwọlé Jàáníìni.

The name Oròwọlé, refers to the Yorùbá bullroarer deity, Orò.

1910

Fágúnwà's parents were originally adherents of the traditional Yorùbá religion until they converted to Christianity in the late 1910s to early 1920s.

Upon conversion, he changed his name to Ọlọ́runfẹ́mi (God loves me).

1916

He attended St. Luke's School, Òkè-Igbó from 1916 to 1924.

1925

After completing his primary education there, he taught as a student teacher in the same school in 1925.

1926

From 1926 to 1929, he attended St. Andrew's College, Ọ̀yọ́ in order to train as a teacher.

1930

From 1930 to 1939 Fágúnwà served as head teacher of the nursery section at St.Andrew's Practicing School, Ọ̀yọ́.

1931

He met his wife in Mọdákẹ́kẹ́ in 1931 while on vacation from St.Andrew's. The courted for six years and married in 1937.

Fágúnwà's paternal great-grandfather was Faniyi Arojo, a warrior.

His son, Fagunwa's paternal grandfather was Egunsola Asungaga Bèyíokú, an Ifa priest from the town of Origbo near Ipetumodu.

His paternal grandmother was Sayoade Olowu, an Owu woman who was a daughter of the Olowu of Owu (before they migrated to Abeokuta).

Asungaga moved from Origbo to Ile-Ife after his children continued dying (this Yorùbá process is called abiku).

Asungaga himself was an abiku child.

1938

In 1938, entering a literary contest of the Nigerian education ministry, Fagunwa wrote his Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀, widely considered the first novel written in the Yorùbá language and one of the first to be written in any African language.

1940

In 1940, he was transferred to St.Patrick's School, Ọ̀wọ́, where he taught until 1942.

1943

In 1943, he moved to the CMS Grammar School, Lagos and in 1944, moved again to the Girls' School in Benin.

1945

Between 1945 and 1946, he taught at Igbobi College, which was temporarily located at Ibadan due to the Second World War, but which relocated back to Lagos in 1946.

1946

Between 1946 and 1948, Fágúnwà was based in Britain on a British Council scholarship.

On his return, he taught at the Government Teacher Training Centre in Ibadan for two years.

1949

Fagunwa's later works include Igbó Olódùmarè (The Forest of God, 1949), Ìrèké Oníbùdó (1949), Ìrìnkèrindó nínú Igbó Elégbèje (Expedition to the Mount of Thought, 1954), and Àdììtú Olódùmarè (1961).

Fagunwa's novels draw heavily on folktale traditions and idioms, including many supernatural elements.

His heroes are usually Yorùbá hunters, who interact with kings, sages, and even gods in their quests.

Thematically, his novels also explore the divide between the Christian beliefs of Africa's colonizers and the continent's traditional religions.

Fagunwa remains the most widely read Yorùbá-language author, and a major influence on such contemporary writers as Amos Tutuola.

He also used Greek myths and Shakespearean stories as themes in his books, such as in his book Igbo Olodumare, where the character Baba-onirugbon-yeuke tells a story similar to Romeo and Juliet.

D. O. Fagunwa was the first Nigerian writer to employ folk philosophy in telling his stories.

1950

In 1950, Fágúnwà returned to Britain, hoping to pursue a degree, but he returned to Nigeria in 1955 to take up a position of Education Officer with the Publications Branch of the Ministry of Education in Western Nigeria.

1955

Fagunwa was awarded the Margaret Wrong Prize in 1955 and was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1959.

1959

He held this position until 1959.

1963

Chief Daniel Olorunfẹmi Fágúnwà MBE (1903 – 7 December 1963), popularly known as D. O. Fágúnwà, was a Nigerian author of Yorùbá heritage who pioneered the Yorùbá language novel.

On 7 December 1963, Fágúnwà was in Bida on his way home to Ibadan after a business trip to Northern Nigeria on behalf of Heinemann Books, where he was employed at the time.

He arrived early at the River Wuya with his driver and they entered the queue for the pontoon, which would ferry people and cars across the river.

While he was waiting for the pontoon service to open, he went for a walk along the riverside and slipped when a bit of earth broke under his foot.

1968

Wole Soyinka translated the book into English in 1968 as The Forest of A Thousand Demons, first published by Thomas Nelson, then Random House in 1982 and again by City Lights in September 2013 (ISBN 9780872866300).