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is an author and scholar living in Pretoria, South Africa. His latest book is Dani Nabudere’s Afrikology: A Quest for African Holism (2018) .

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SANYA OSHA

AUGUST 30 2019

Amos Tutuola’s Unwonted Predicament

SANYA OSHA•AUGUST 30 2019

Amos Tutuola’s Unwonted Predicament

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.

Amos Tutuola’s Unwonted Predicament

SANYA OSHA•AUGUST 30 2019

Amos Tutuola’s Unwonted Predicament

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.