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best african storytelling prose ever! - Goodreads Simply amazing storytelling. - Goodreads I don't know of another writer like Tutuola. - Goodreads Review: The Palm-Wine DrinkardUser Review - Kaushik Viswanath - Goodreads"I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age. I had no other work more than to drink palm-wine in my life." --One of the best opening lines I've ever read, had me hooked instantly ... Read full review Review: The Palm-Wine DrinkardUser Review - Feliks - GoodreadsJust plain awful. Unrelieved stream of implausible and incomprehensible, poorly-articulated, squawking, chirruping, cawing gibberish. A chore to get through. An ordeal, really. Read full review Related books
Common terms and phrasesAbeokuta alive AMOS TUTUOLA asked began black-smith body brought bush animals cleared commanded the egg complete gentleman compound leaf cowrie curious creature cutlass dancing debit-collector debitor died domestic animals Drum entered Faithful-Mother farm Father of gods fear field fire friends gave half-bodied baby head heard Heaven hole human-beings hungry-creature husband inside the bush Invisible-Pawn juju kegs of palm-wine killed king knew labourers lady lady saw Lagos laughing leave living loads looking miles morning mountain-creatures neck night o'clock a.m. once palm palm-tree palm-wine drinkard palm-wine tapster reached a town red creatures red fish Red-king Red-people Red-town replied rest returned river road senior wife Skull sleep slept started our journey stood stopped surprise talk tap palm-wine tell termites terrible creatures thought three fellows told took travelled village wanted white creatures white tree whole wine tapster Wizard woke wooden-doll Wraith-Island yams References to this bookFrom Google Scholar" Who Am I?": Fact and Fiction in African First-Person NarrativeMineke Schipper - 1985 - Research in African Literatures Oralite ecrite et recherche d'identite dans l'oeuvre d'Amos TutuolaMineke Schipper - 1979 - Research in African Literatures The Use of Indigenized Forms of English in Ngũgĩ's Devil on the ...Luanga A Kasanga, Mambo Kalume - 1996 - African Languages and Cultures Amos Tutuola and Kola Ogunmola: A Comparison of Two Versions of ...Robert G Armstrong - 1980 - Callaloo Bibliographic information
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