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Amos Tutuola Quotes

Nigerian writer (1920-1997)

Amos Olatubosun Tutuola Odegbami (20 June 1920 – 8 June 1997) was a Nigerian writer who wrote books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales.

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Old people were saying that the whole people who had died in this world, did not go to heaven directly, but they were living in one place somewhere in this world. So that I said I would find out where my palm-wine tapster who had died was.

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