We don't know him here in kuvuki

Even this kind of positive thread to celebrate a person's legacy is degenerating into tribalistic fights. What is wrong with you guys?

Throwback:
The first Nigerian Novelist.

Trained by an Igbo man .

Olajide233:
Fixed games available for today

chai, scammers don resume with football

I remember 'The Palm Wine Drinkard'. One of the chapters in the novel is "THE LADY MUST NOT BE BLAMED FOR FOLLOWING THE SKULL AS A COMPLETE GENTLEMAN"

If God says you will be great, you will be. Imagine having just 6 years of education and he did not see that as barrier yet he wrote books and got them published. He also was an associate at University of Iowa. Wow!

tot:
Even this kind of positive thread to celebrate a person's legacy is degenerating into tribalistic fights. What is wrong with you guys?

Everything that is wrong with tribalists and those who are in the fetters of the "we-better-pass-them" syndrome.

yinkus6750:
Marking a Century on earth is no child's play.
Takes The Special Grace of God.
And not everyone has the privilege.
Happy birthday Great Great Grand Pa.
May you live the remaning years of your life in peace and good health.

Did you read this sir..?

coronavirus19:

chai, scammers don resume with football

Honestly.
Just click on Report for such posts.

tot:
Even this kind of positive thread to celebrate a person's legacy is degenerating into tribalistic fights. What is wrong with you guys?

Most of them have nothing to actually live for... They are largely jobless, penniless, and a bloody nuisance to people around them... Nairaland gives them a platform to act out their failed existences as humans!!!

Do well to pity them!!! No progressive, well paid, and fulfilled young person in this advanced age indulges in tribalism or bigotry!!! Fact!!!

obyrich:
...Amos became a servant for F.O.Monu, an Igbo man, who sent him to Salvation Army Primary School in lieu of wages... .

This happened as early as 1927. Yet some people will think Igbos are their problem.

I doubt this part of the story. Anyway, for now celebrate Amos Tutuola.

MurphyG1:
I remember 'The Palm Wine Drinkard'. One of the chapters in the novel is "THE LADY MUST NOT BE BLAMED FOR FOLLOWING THE SKULL AS A COMPLETE GENTLEMAN"

If God says you will be great, you will be. Imagine having just 6 years of education and he did not see that as barrier yet he wrote books and got them published. He also was an associate at University of Iowa. Wow!

Very inspiring, most people today would use that as one of several excuses.

Guestlander:


I doubt this part of the story.

Do you mind sharing reasons for your doubt?

obyrich:
Trained by an Igbo man .

Shame on you for how you are ruining a thread like this. Big shame. Who cares if he is Igbo or Yoruba? If you are having difficulty focusing on his legacies, then you really should get a life so you can stop disgracing yourself in this manner.

obyrich:
Do you mind sharing reasons for your doubt?

I don't want to feed anyone's depravity. It was on this website that someone said Herbert Macaulay was invited by Nnamdi Azikiwe to join the NCNC! Such sacrilege.

Ozila come see the man wey you resemble for writing pattern.Ishilove am inviting you to this thread.rest on legend your novel sweet die.

Angelfrost:


Most of them have nothing to actually live for... They are largely jobless, penniless, and a bloody nuisance to people around them... Nairaland gives them a platform to act out their failed existences as humans!!!

Do well to pity them!!! No progressive, well paid, and fulfilled young person in this advanced age indulges in tribalism or bigotry!!! Fact!!!

Couldn't agree more. I call them losers, both sides. So annoying. They knock themselves out on the politics threads but this is Literature for goodness sake.

XXLMANDIGO:
Swears....


I am Proud to be Afonja Swagger...

Remove the afonja and put yoruba

yinkus6750:
Marking a Century on earth is no child's play.
Takes The Special Grace of God.
And not everyone has the privilege.
Happy birthday Great Great Grand Pa.
May you live the remaning years of your life in peace and good health.

Do you even understand the meaning of the word 'posthumous'?

yinkus6750:
Marking a Century on earth is no child's play.
Takes The Special Grace of God.
And not everyone has the privilege.
Happy birthday Great Great Grand Pa.
May you live the remaning years of your life in peace and good health.

u sure say u know the meaning of posthumous?

Happy posthumous birthday to the author of The palmwine drinkard'.

MurphyG1:
I remember 'The Palm Wine Drinkard'. One of the chapters in the novel is "THE LADY MUST NOT BE BLAMED FOR FOLLOWING THE SKULL AS A COMPLETE GENTLEMAN"

If God says you will be great, you will be. Imagine having just 6 years of education and he did not see that as barrier yet he wrote books and got them published. He also was an associate at University of Iowa. Wow!

can u please interpret the following quote in a lame man understanding

especially, my life in the bush of ghost! I love this book die!!!.

I read one of his books, The Witch-herbalist of the Remote Town, in my teens. I remember wondering at the book's poor grammar, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Now that I know better, I realize the lesson here: our stories and folklore do not need to be grammatically correct - as long as the reader/listener understands the storyteller and enjoys the experience.

Just to spite the Igbos..


Fixed anyway...

mmars:

Remove the afonja and put yoruba

XXLMANDIGO:
Swears....


I am Proudly Yoruba Swagger...

I have his books, if you're interested. see my bio

yinkus6750:
Marking a Century on earth is no child's play.
Takes The Special Grace of God.
And not everyone has the privilege.
Happy birthday Great Great Grand Pa.
May you live the remaning years of your life in peace and good health.

just wow, so u didn't even read the headline

The palm wine drinkard is still the funniest book I have ever read. RIP Amos Tutuola.

Angelfrost:


Most of them have nothing to actually live for... They are largely jobless, penniless, and a bloody nuisance to people around them... Nairaland gives them a platform to act out their failed existences as humans!!!

Do well to pity them!!! No progressive, well paid, and fulfilled young person in this advanced age indulges in tribalism or bigotry!!! Fact!!!

Well said

SenatorBright:
The proud author of the first indigenous Nigeria novel.


His novel tittle The palm wine drinkard and his dead palm wine tapster in the deads town is still the funniest I have read.

Happy birthday in death

Especially the part about that man that shaved the head of all the domestic animals in the village.

Okay

obyrich:
Same way Yoruba elites abroad fled the West to pursue economic prosperity in America and UK.

People migrate for different reasons. If not laziness, pray tell why a so-called economic refugee will be the one to train your children for you? Shameless bigot.

You posted a bigoted comment then turn round to accuse another of bigotry? Very stale trick.

So when Yoruba elites were traveling to Europe for education, your own people were fleeing to Yorubaland? Yet a tribe that looks up to the Yorubas lament daily that they are being envied?

The economic refugee had a requirement for service which was rendered by the lad. It was no philanthropy.

The young lad sought employment and was paid in tuition fees.

So you mean it is the laziness of the parents that many Igbos from the village are sent to the city to be trained by their townsmen?