After the war Tutuola had to take a job as a messenger, and it gave him time, between errands, to write down stories he had heard. He served as a coppersmith in the West African Air Corps of the British military in World War II. He later tried his hand at farming, without success, then pursued the blacksmith trade. On the way he meets with a series of adventures, in the process gaining a wife and wisdom.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novelīorn in 1929 in western Nigeria, Amos Tutuola achieved only a sixth-grade education due to financial constraints following his father’s death. The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads’ TownĪ novel set in Nigeria in the timeless folkloric past published in English in 1952.ĭrinkard, the protaganist and narrator of the novel, goes in search of his deceased palm-wine tapster in Deads’ Town.
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