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Amos Tutuola - The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)

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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.

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Born: June 20, 1920
Died: June 8, 1997 (aged 76)
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