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Drawing on Nigerian History and Folklore: An Interview with Chigozie Obioma

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Photo: Nikki May Chigozie Obioma is a Nigerian novelist. He has written three novels: The Fishermen (2015), An Orchestra of Minorities (2019), and The Road to the Country (2024). The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Road to the Country was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates …

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The Palm-Wine Drinkard: Amos Tutuola

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Published by Faber & Faber, 1952, 136 pages. This is the story of a man who does nothing but drink palm wine, something he has done since he was ten years old. His father, realizing that his son would never do anything else, gives him a palm-tree farm with 560,000 palm trees so that he …

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