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Tutuola’s novels are founded on the lived realities of Yoruba society

For many years, Amos Tutuola, the Nigerian author who was born in 1920 and died in 1997, was despised, ridiculed and made to appear exotic and primitive. He was dismissed by his critics as a relic of a dying and forgotten past of a dark continent that was awakening and harkening to the call of Europe’s colonising civilisation.But something has shifted in the two decades since his death.

#Rhodes Must Fall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa