Amos Tutuola: A Writer's Many Controversies

Who really was Amos Tutuola? An amazing but naïve primitivist? An ethnographic curiosity? A quasi-plagiarist of the fantastical creations of D.O. Fagunwa? The most likely answer: he was all of these but also more. Alternative American rock group, Talking Heads’ quirky album title, ‘My Life in the Bush of Ghosts’ comes from the most unexpected of sources. Who would have thought an ultracool New York city punk rock combo would be remotely aware of the work of a relatively obscure Nigerian

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