S2E10: Book Discussions: Amos Tutuola: The Palm-Wine Drinkard | Nigerian Writers | Postcolonialism

Amos Tutuola: The Palm-Wine Drinkard | Nigerian Writers | Postcolonialism This is abrief introduction to the first English Language African novel to be published outside of Africa: Amos Tutuola's The Palm Wine Drinkard (1952). I mostly talk about the plot structure and the sue of Yoruba folktales by the author.  Amos Tutuola. "The Palm-Wine Drinkard." https://amzn.to/2VYzk6A Description on Amazon: When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure. Since then, The Palm-Wine Drinkard has been translated into more than 15 languages and has come to be regarded as a masterwork of one of Africa's most influential writers. Tutuola's second novel, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, recounts the fate of mortals who stray into the world of ghosts, the heart of the tropical forest. Here, as every hunter and traveler knows, mortals venture at great peril, and it is here that a small boy is left alone.