Amos Tutuola Quotes

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I was a palm-wine drunkard since I was a boy of ten years of age. I had no other work more than to drink palm-wine in my life. In those days we did not know other money except COWRIES, so that everything was very cheap, and my father was the richest man in our town.

Amos Tutuola

Amos Tutuola

Amos Tutuola

Born: June 20, 1920

Died: June 8, 1997 (aged 76)

Bio: Amos Tutuola was a Nigerian writer who wrote books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales.

Known for:

The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954)
Yoruba folktales (1986)
The village witch doctor & other stories (1990)
Feather Woman of the Jungle (1962)

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