![]() 1842–1936), patriarch of the Odegbami clan, was a chieftain of the Egba people and a traditional worshipper of the Yoruba religion. His grandfather the Odafin of Egbaland, Chief Odegbami (c. Tutuola's father and grandfather belonged to this subethnic group.Īmos was the youngest son of his father his mother was his father's third wife. ![]() Wasinmi was a small farming village founded between the years 18 by constituents of the Egba subethnic group from Abeokuta. ![]() Amos Tutuola ( Yoruba: Ámósì Tutùọlá 20 June 1920 – 8 June 1997) was a Nigerian writer who wrote books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales.Īmos Olatubosun Tutuola Odegbami was born on 20 June 1920, 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. ![]()
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