Biography of amos tutuola

Nigerian writer

"Tutuola" redirects here. For the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit character, see Fin Tutuola.

Amos Tutuola (Yoruba: Ámósì Tutùọlá; 20 June – 8 June ) was a Nigerian writer who wrote books based in part on Yorubafolk-tales.

Early history

Amos Olatubosun Tutuola Odegbami was born on 20 June , in Wasinmi, a village just a few miles outside of Abeokuta, Nigeria, where his parents, Charles Tutuola Odegbami and Esther Aina Odegbami, who were Yoruba Christian cocoa farmers, lived.^[1][2] Wasinmi was a small farming village founded between the years and ^[3] by constituents of the Egba subethnic group from Abeokuta.

Tutuola's father and grandfather belonged to this subethnic group.

Biography of amos tutuola

Amos was the youngest son of his father; his mother was his father's third wife. His grandfather the Odafin of Egbaland, Chief Odegbami (c. –), patriarch of the Odegbami clan, was a chieftain of the Egba people and a traditional wo